Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 12
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

THEHORSECOURSE 

We provide horse-powered interventions for those for whom talk-based therapies and services are not working. We provide well-evidenced equine-assisted services on an individual and group basis, by referral only. We also conduct workshops in non-verbal strategies for managing emotions. We train and support others to replicate our work nationally and internationally.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 7 years

www.thehorsecourse.org

mail@thehorsecourse.org

01305 819669

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£339£320£20n/an/an/an/an/a92
31/03/22£251£302£-51n/an/an/an/an/a90
31/03/21£402£354£48n/an/an/an/an/a42
31/03/20*£323£300£23n/an/an/an/an/a39
31/03/19£203£209£-7n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/18£369£281£88£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Dorset,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 92 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£285,299
BBC Children in Need£90,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£40,000
Esmee Fairbairn£20,000
Masonic Trust£15,000
Co-Operative Group£5,068
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Growing through the Gaps
£200,000 18/11/2021
The organisation will use the funding to continue developing three programmes including equine assisted therapy and a horticulture project. They want to continue and further develop their non-crisis ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£20,000 12/11/2021
Core Funding
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 10/11/2021
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Working Wellies Garden Project at TheHorseCourse
£1,800 23/10/2021
We want to develop a safe space for people with mental health problems to grow vegetables, fruit and flowers and find routes to education, training and work.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Horse Course - Covid-19 Response
£85,299 18/06/2020
6
The funding will be used to provide specialist support to extremely vulnerable people in the community to deliver virtual activities and sessions and to offer 'supported volunteering' for existing ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to TheHorseCourse
£20,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Co-Operative Group - Grant to TheHorseCourse
£3,268 15/11/2019
We want to offer 50 disadvantaged families a taste of our life-changing programme, using horses to teach relationship skills.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to The Horse Course
£90,000 26/06/2019
36
This project will provide equine assisted interventions for young people with challenges engaging with education due to behavioural difficulties. The sessions will help to improve their emotional ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 18/06/2019
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - No Limits!
£154,485 22/02/2019
36
The project provides evidence based equine-assisted interventions for young people excluded from education, relationships or society through difficulties in emotional regulation, self-belief and ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to TheHorseCourse
£120,000 19/06/2018
36
Towards core costs to support young people who demonstrate challenging behaviour and have not responded to talk-based interventions, as well as influencing wider sector thinking and practice.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to TheHorseCourse
£40,000 12/03/2018
48
Main Grant unrestricted core costs
National Lottery Community Fund - A place for action-learning in Weymouth
£10,000 17/01/2018
12
The funding will be used by a charity to carry out the consultation, design and planning phase of site development in preparation for building their new premises which will offer equine assisted ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to TheHorseCourse
£49,520 05/07/2017
24
delivering innovative work with various disadvantaged groups, including supporting 60 people per year with drug and alcohol abuse problems where the work achieves 8 key outcomes for service users. ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to TheHorseCourse
£90,000 08/06/2017
36
towards three years' running costs of a project in Dorset that works to reduce social exclusion through horsemanship-based interventions for disadvantaged people
National Lottery Community Fund - TheHorseCourse Looked After Children Pilot
£10,000 01/06/2016
12
The group will use the funding to provide equine-assisted activities to disadvantaged children in the care system. This will seek to improve and manage children’s behaviour and relationship ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - TPP1 - Help from a Horse
£48,500 29/03/2016
12
They will expand their project supporting adults and young people struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. They will work with specially trained horses and learn new self-control skills, like ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to TheHorseCourse
£60,000 08/02/2016
24
Towards core costs for work with children and young people with complex needs who are not engaging with talk-based interventions.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 05/12/2016, number: 1170553
Gift Aid
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; AR20: 11 days late,
Main office

TheHorseCourse
Top Yard
Littlemead
Weymouth
DT3 5DL

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 BY ENHANCING LIFE SKILLS OF SUCH PEOPLE (A) THROUGH INTERACTION WITH HORSES OR (B) BY ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF SUCH PEOPLE AND THOSE SUPPORTING SUCH PEOPLE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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