National Horseracing College Limited

Registered charity 700405 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTHERN RACING COLLEGE, SOUTH YORKSHIRE TRAINING TRUST

The objects of the charity are to advance education, particularly among young persons, and to relieve the need of unemployed persons by the provision of vocational and academic training connected with the horse racing, equestrian, agricultural, horticultural and their allied areas. The charity has two specific mission statements in its Corporate Plan.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an operating surplus of £317,120 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £3,162,268. However, the trustees note that the charity has been unable to comply with its own reserves policy to hold free reserves of between 1 and 2 months of operational expenditure. The charity is reliant on increases in industry and other funding to meet its obligations but has sufficient cash flow forecasts to continue for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SMH Group Audit. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — National Horseracing College (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir Philip Davieschair
• Callum Helliwell
• David Carr
• Dr Helen Elizabeth McCarthy PhD FHEA
• Francis Stephenson
• JAMES HETHERTON
• JEFF ENNIS
• Sally Iggulden
• Susannah C Gill
• William Pieter Rachmann

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

Operates in: Doncaster

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 BRS EDUCATION LIMITED.

• BRS EDUCATION LIMITED income £5.4m
• NEW BEGINNINGS HORSES income £414k
• RETRAINING OF RACE HORSES income £1.3m
• The Wavertree Education Trust Limited income £490k
• GREATWOOD CHARITY LIMITED income £851k
• THE HORSE RANGERS ASSOCIATION (HAMPTON COURT)LIMITED income £681k

Side by side with its peers

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