THEHORSECOURSE

Registered charity 1170553 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide horse-powered interventions for those for whom talk-based therapies and services are not working. We provide well-evidenced equine-assisted services on an individual and group basis, by referral only. We also conduct workshops in non-verbal strategies for managing emotions. We train and support others to replicate our work nationally and internationally.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY BY ENHANCING LIFE SKILLS OF SUCH PEOPLE (A) THROUGH INTERACTION WITH HORSES OR (B) BY ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF SUCH PEOPLE AND THOSE SUPPORTING SUCH PEOPLE.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £1,458 for the year, reducing total funds from £87,143 to £85,685. Per the trustees' report, the organization maintained reserves representing three months of operating costs throughout the year, in accordance with their reserves policy.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — TheHorseCourse (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/05/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNA ROSE-PRYNNchair
• Elizabeth Ann Eaton
• Justine Louise Davie · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Simon Cole
• Stuart Lynch

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HORSEWORLD TRUST.

• HORSEWORLD TRUST income £1.2m
• HORSE RESCUE FUND income £102k
• THE FFOREST UCHAF HORSE AND PONY REHABILITATION CENTRE CHARITABLE TRUST income £130k
• THE HORSE TRUST income £2.3m
• THE HORSE RANGERS ASSOCIATION (HAMPTON COURT)LIMITED income £681k
• Reach Equine and Outdoor Therapy income £245k

Side by side with its peers

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