ROLEYSTONE HORSE AND PONY SANCTUARY

Registered charity 1198065 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote humane behaviour towards equines; by providing appropriate care, protection, treatment and security for equines which are in need of care and attention by reasoning of sickness, maltreatment poor circumstances or ill usage and to educate the public in matters pertaining to equine welfare in general and the prevention of cruelty and suffering among equines.

Objects

TO PROMOTE HUMANE BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS EQUINES BY PROVIDING APPROPRIATE CARE, PROTECTION, TREATMENT AND SECURITY FOR EQUINES WHICH ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION BY REASONING OF SICKNESS, MALTREATMENT, POOR CIRCUMSTANCES OR ILL USAGE AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS PERTAINING TO EQUINE WELFARE IN GENERAL AND THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND SUFFERING AMONG EQUINES.

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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Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net unrestricted expense of £24,738 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £237,682 to £212,944. Per the trustees' report, free reserves excluding fixed assets stood at £111,911, which the trustees are retaining to potentially purchase land. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue.

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 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Social media 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)

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PHILIPPA LONGchair
• DIANE COULTON
• GILLIAN GREENWOOD

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LLUEST HORSE AND PONY TRUST.

• LLUEST HORSE AND PONY TRUST income £140k
• ESSEX HORSE AND PONY PROTECTION SOCIETY income £443k
• HORSE RESCUE FUND income £102k
• ELISE PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £60k
• HOPTON REHAB & HOMING CENTRE income £327k
• THE RACEHORSE SANCTUARY LTD income £185k

Side by side with its peers

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