SPORT HORSE BREEDING OF GREAT BRITAIN

Registered charity 211570 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHB(GB), THE NATIONAL LIGHT HORSE BREEDING SOCIETY

SPORT HORSE BREEDING OF GREAT BRITAIN IS A REGISTERED CHARITY WHOSE OBJECTIVES ARE TO DEVELOP AND IMPROVE THE BREEDING OF THE BRITISH SPORT HORSE.

Objects

PROMOTION OF LIGHT HORSE BREEDING.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Animals · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sevenoaks, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity sustained a net loss of £52,803 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a reduction of unrestricted funds to £195,111. The trustees report that the charity remains in a period of recovery and development, with improved financial management and controls implemented. They have assessed going concern and expressed a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence in the foreseeable future.

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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00221470

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The friends of Sport Horse Breeding of Great Britain (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher John Hewlettchair
• Carole Mortimer
• Katie Jerram-Hunnable
• Kirsty Aird
• Ruth Flack

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE IRISH DRAUGHT HORSE SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN).

• THE IRISH DRAUGHT HORSE SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) income £124k
• THE BRITISH HORSE SOCIETY income £17.7m
• RETRAINING OF RACE HORSES income £2.5m
• BRITISH DRESSAGE income £5.0m
• THE THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS ASSOCIATION income £1.9m
• BRITISH HORSE LOGGERS CHARITABLE TRUST income £87k

Side by side with its peers

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