HORSE RESCUE FUND

Registered charity 275428 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Horse Rescue Fund aims to prevent and relieve cruelty to horses, ponies and donkeys, to protect them from unnecessary suffering and to advance the education of the public in their proper care and treatment. To this end we rescue any neglected or badly treated equines, restore them to full health and carry out all necessary rehabilitation to enable us to place them on loan in approved homes.

Objects

(1)TO PREVENT AND RELIEVE CRUELTY TO HORSES (WHICH EXPRESSION SHALL INCLUDE PONIES, MULES AND DONKEYS) TO PROTECT THEM FROM UNNECESSARY SUFFERING AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THEIR PROPER CARE AND TREATMENT.(2) TO AMELIORATE THE PAIN AND SUFFERING OF HORSES WHICH ARE FOR ANY REASON UNFIT FOR WORK OR IN NEED OF CARE BY THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF A HOME OF REST OR HOMES OF REST, STABLING AND GRAZING, OR BY PROVISION OF SUITABLE WORK UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE SOCIETY OR BY ARRANGING FOR THEIR PAINLESS DESTRUCTION OR BY ANY COMBINATION OF SUCH MEANS AS AFORESAID.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 operated at a net expenditure of £71,023 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds from £875,851 to £804,828. The trustees report that despite rising costs, the charity remains in a 'relatively sound financial position' with unrestricted reserves of £804,828 held at the end of the period.

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 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jacqueline Crookchair
• Anna Maria Hadley
• Corinne Janet Bullock
• Sharon Yale

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 THE FFOREST UCHAF HORSE AND PONY REHABILITATION CENTRE CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE FFOREST UCHAF HORSE AND PONY REHABILITATION CENTRE CHARITABLE TRUST income £130k
• HORSEWORLD TRUST income £1.2m
• NEW BEGINNINGS HORSES income £414k
• THE HORSE TRUST income £2.3m
• THE MARE AND FOAL SANCTUARY income £6.0m
• RETRAINING OF RACE HORSES income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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