Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 9
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

CENTRED HORSEPLAY

Centred Horseplay promotes social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society. Fully approved Gloucestershire hub for the world renowned "TheHorseCourse", assisting people with an innovative and well developed programme with horses.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • The Board is predominantly female
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/05/23£64£52£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/22£35£48£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/21£36£39£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/20£44£44£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/19£59£45£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/18£20£27£-7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/17£24£8£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 9 years

thehorsecourse@centredhorseplay.org.uk

07799067235

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Social clubs and similar
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Gloucestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Barnwood Trust£20,000
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£5,000
Masonic Trust£2,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£2,000 28/02/2023
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
National Lottery Community Fund - Helping families help themselves
£10,000 02/12/2022
The funding will be used to run a family support programme for the community. The project aims to support the most disadvantaged younger people in the community.
Barnwood Trust - Gloucestershire Funders (Organisational & Group Funding)
£20,000 04/11/2022
Equine therapy for children, young people and adults
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Centred Horseplay
£5,000 25/05/2022
refurbishment of building for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in Gloustershire
National Lottery Community Fund - Restart courses
£10,000 19/02/2021
6
The organisation will use the funding to run specialist equine activities and provide practical and emotional tools and support for hard to reach children and their families with complex needs. The organisation has adapted their facilities and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Centred Horseplay Children In Care Pilot
£8,500 12/06/2018
12
The funding will be used to deliver an equine based learning programme for children living in care. The project aims to help children develop their skills in responsibility and engagement as well as enhancing their behavioural skills and sense of ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Centred Horseplay
£22,500 08/05/2018
36
This project will work with children and young people with challenges engaging with education due to physiological or behavioural difficulties. The project aims to increase confidence, improve relationships and support better management of emotions. ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Centred Horseplay
£17,360 14/03/2018
36
towards three years' running costs of an equine-assisted intervention project in Gloucestershire working with people struggling with addiction or at risk of drug and/or alcohol dependency
National Lottery Community Fund - Moving Forward In Recovery
£7,538 08/02/2017
12
This is a project by a charity in the Cotswolds, serving people across Gloucestershire. The funding will be used to support people who are experiencing the effects of substance misuse through a programme of therapy activities. This will improve the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • AMELIA ROBBINS Appointed: 2023
  • HELEN FRENCH Appointed: 2023
  • IAN LEECH Appointed: 2016
  • JESSICA DAY Appointed: 2023
  • SELENA RUTH JONES (Chair) Appointed: 2016
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 19/05/2016, number: 1167226
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Paying staff
  • 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
Filing Record
7 returns made; all on time
Main office

Stown Cottage
Crackstone
Minchinhampton
STROUD
Gloucestershire
GL6 9BD

Objectives

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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