WATERSHED RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION INCORPORATING CARRIAGE DRIVING

Registered charity 1164924 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WATERSHED GROUP RIDING FOR THE DISABLED, WATERSHED RDA

Provision of riding activities for disabled children and adults

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE OBJECTS OF THE RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION INCORPORATING CARRIAGE DRIVING A CHARITY REGISTERED UNDER CHARITY NUMBER 244108 RDA BY PROVIDING DISABLED PEOPLE WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO RIDE AND/OR TO CARRIAGE DRIVE TO BENEFIT THEIR HEALTH AND WELL BEING IN THE GLOUCESERSHIRE AND WILTSHIRE AREA.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cotswold, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £40,371, while the trustees' report indicates a policy to keep reserves to cover unforeseen expenses. The charity reported a net surplus for the year and the independent examiner confirmed no material matters caused concern regarding the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 08/02/2024, 8 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MRS PAM FARNSWORTHchair
• Katherine Mottershead
• Kathryn Bell · trustee of 1 other charity
• LORRAINE HACKETT
• Olivia Folkesson
• Sandra McCallum
• Stuart John Baxter
• William Richard de Warenne Lash

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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• WILBY RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION INCORPORATING CARRIAGE DRIVING income £54k
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• HELEN ATKIN GROUP RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION income £39k
• CHIGWELL RIDING TRUST FOR SPECIAL NEEDS income £557k
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Side by side with its peers

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