RIDING FOR SMILES

Registered charity 1174773 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

RfS offers inclusive, innovative equestrian based activities to disabled and vulnerable young people who have physical, social, learning, behavioural and mental disabilities and those who are disaffected, excluded or marginalised. Our sessions provide enjoyable, enrichment experiences to develop confidence and self-esteem, positive interaction, motivation, calmness, thoughtfulness and resilience.

Objects

THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH, RELIEF OF NEED AND ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE A PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY OR DISABILITIES, OR WHO ARE IN NEED OF RELIEF FROM HURT AND PAIN BY THE PROVISION OF A RANGE OF ACTIVITIES TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT WITHIN AN EQUESTRIAN ENVIRONMENT.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bolsover, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is a bank statement for the 'RFS BANK BALCommunity BANK ACCOUNT' and does not contain a full set of financial accounts, trustees' report, or summary of income and expenditure. Consequently, no assessment of the charity's overall financial health, reserves, or operational costs can be derived from this text alone.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Addischair
• Beth Stuckey
• HELEN STUCKEY
• SHARON TOLLEY

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Nottinghamshire · Rotherham · Sheffield City

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 BROADLANDS GROUP RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION.

• BROADLANDS GROUP RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION income £262k
• SAXON GROUP RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION INCORPORATING CARRIAGE DRIVING income £42k
• ERME VALLEY RIDING FOR THE DISABLED LTD income £139k
• ANDOVER RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION income £28k
• BARNFIELD RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION income £32k
• NEWHAM RIDING SCHOOL AND ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £538k

Side by side with its peers

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