Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 5
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • All female board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

PARKFIELD EQUINE SOLUTIONS

We offer high impact horse-powered interventions for hard to reach participants. Participants usually have multiple problems and live in difficult situations. The method used is a revolutionary approach to mental health/self-regulation with excellent impact evidence. Participants are helped to become calm and focused by learning to communicate with specially trained horses from the ground.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • Why is the Board completely female?

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 Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23*£50£55£-5n/a
31/03/22£30£49£-19n/a
31/03/21£39£25£14n/a
31/03/20£36£17£19n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 6 years

www.parkfieldequinesolutions.com

info@parkfieldequinesolutions.com

07540471067

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Emotional support, counselling or therapy
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Brighton And Hove, East Sussex, Kent, Surrey, West Sussex,
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
National Lottery Community Fund£29,950
Sussex Community Foundation£27,416
Henry Smith Charity£17,000
BBC Children in Need£10,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Parkfield Equine Solutions
£7,650 17/11/2023
Funding was provided towards group workshops.
National Lottery Community Fund - Equine Assisted Interventions-New Beginnings
£10,000 29/06/2023
The funding will be used to continue the group's delivery of Equine Assisted interventions for people at risk of serious mental ill health. The project aims to provide crisis prevention support family relationships and reduce isolation.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Parkfield Equine Solutions
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
National Lottery Community Fund - Equine Powered Interventions
£10,000 10/06/2022
The funding will be used to continue to increase resources to provide equine based intervention support to people aged 9-65 who are living with mental health and/or behavioural issues. The project aims to reduce social exclusion of individuals ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Parkfield Equine Solutions
£4,800 17/11/2021
12
Funding was provided to support places for local NHS staff to attend their courses and provide them with mental health support.
National Lottery Community Fund - Restart:Equine Powered Interventions.
£9,950 19/02/2021
12
The funding will be used to deliver resilience skills training and equine activities for young people and adults living with mental health and/or behavioural problems. The project aims to enable participants to reconnect with their family friends ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Parkfield Equine Solutions
£10,000 18/12/2020
Fun and learning through horsemanship to children and young people experiencing psychological or behavioural difficulties. Activities will result in improved self-belief, better relationships and confidence to re-engage with education.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Parkfield Equine Solutions
£5,000 19/11/2020
11
Funding was provided for project costs of lighter touch sessions aswell as admin and volunteer costs.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Parkfield Equine Solutions
£17,000 07/08/2020
24
towards two years' running costs of 'ReStart' Course, an equine assisted intervention programme for vulnerable young people in West Sussex.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Parkfield Equine Solutions
£9,966 10/12/2019
10
Funding was provided for project costs of 5 day intensive horsemanship aimed at women and girls.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Parkfield Equine Solutions
£4,500 18/11/2019
3
Funding was provided for project costs of 5 day intensive horsemanship programme for 6 participants.
National Lottery Community Fund - TheHorseCourse
£10,000 16/05/2019
12
The project will use funding to deliver an innovative talking-alternative based therapy course delivered within a horsemanship context.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • INES ALEXANDRA HARRISON (Chair) Appointed: 2020
  • JOSEPHINE MCCULLOUGH Appointed: 2018
  • LINDA JORDAN Appointed: 2018
  • LOUISE ELLEN SHARA MATTOCK Appointed: 2022
  • SARA DE VRIES Appointed: 2018
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/04/2019, number: 1182747
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
4 returns made; AR23: 7 days late,
Main office

The Lawn
Potmans Lane
Catsfield
BATTLE
East Sussex
TN33 9BJ

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.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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