ARROW RIDING CENTRE FOR DISABLED

Registered charity 291623 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

providing a unique form of therapy through horse/pony riding and the opportunity for disabled people tolearn to ride up to national and international levels

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE GROUP ARE TO PROMOTE THE OBJECTS OF THE RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION INCORPORATING CARRIAGE DRIVING A CHARITY REGISTERED UNDER CHARITY NUMBER 244108 ("THE ASSOCIATION") BY PROVIDING DISABLED PEOPLE WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO RIDE AND/OR TO CARRIAGE DRIVE TO BENEFIT THEIR HEALTH AND WELL BEING IN THE KENT & SE LONDON AREA

Area of benefit: KENT & SE LONDON AREA

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £18,613 for the year ended 31st March 2025, which was covered by reserves. The trustees report that costs of essential supplies rose faster than service price increases, and a fall in donations contributed to the deficit, though the charity continues to operate with support from grants and volunteers.

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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/12/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTINE LUCKINGS
• KENNETH WYNDHAM BLAKE
• MARILYN STAPLEY
• Noelle Basten
• PAT MCMILLAN
• VALERIE ANN BLAKE

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

Operates in: Bexley · Bromley · Greenwich · Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MARGARET HAES RIDING CENTRE LTD.

• MARGARET HAES RIDING CENTRE LTD income £232k
• PENNIWELLS RIDING CENTRE FOR THE DISABLED income £243k
• MIDDLETON PARK EQUESTRIAN CENTRE RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION income £368k
• THE DIAMOND CENTRE FOR DISABLED RIDERS income £578k
• CLWYD SPECIAL RIDING CENTRE LIMITED income £364k
• THE AVON CENTRE LIMITED income £490k

Side by side with its peers

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