Finance Score: 3

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 6

Deficit latest year: -2
Future income +5
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 8

CREST FARM EQUINE CONNECTIONS

We offer high impact horse-powered interventions for hard to reach participants. Participants typically have multiple problems and live in difficult situations. The method used is a revolutionary approach to mental health/self-regulation with excellent evidence of positive outcomes. Participants are coached to become calm and focused by learning to communicate with specially trained horses.

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Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/12/22		£12,199	£17,558	£-5,359	1
31/12/21		£23,483	£6,764	£16,719	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 4 years

www.crestfarmequineconnections.com

info@crestfarmequineconnections.com

07767651655

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Disability
Other Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Mental health and addiction

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Kent,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
1 volunteer

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	£30,000
BBC Children in Need	£15,000
Henry Smith Charity	£4,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Crest Farm Equine Connections (CFEC)
£15,000	28/09/2023	This project will provide equine-assisted interventions for young people with a range of mental health issues, to raise confidence in their own personal achievements.
National Lottery Community Fund - Equine Intervention Project
£10,000	31/08/2023	The funding will be used to deliver a one-to-one equine-assisted intervention programme for people of all ages who are at risk of developing mental health challenges or experiencing social exclusion. ....more The funding will be used to deliver a one-to-one equine-assisted intervention programme for people of all ages who are at risk of developing mental health challenges or experiencing social exclusion. The project aims to support participants to improve their life-skills and self-belief increase their engagement in education training or employment.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Crest Farm Equine Connections
£4,000	06/12/2022	towards one year's running costs of the 'ReStart Programme', an Equine intervention programme for people with mental health and/or behavioural issues in Kent.
National Lottery Community Fund - ReStart The Equine Intervention Program
£10,000	22/07/2022	The project will offer Equine Therapy to young people who may be struggling due to the pandemic.
National Lottery Community Fund - ReStart Equine intervention
£10,000	25/03/2021 11	This project will support young people who have had a decline in mental health through the Covid-19 pandemic and families who are living in domestic abuse situations. It will cover topics like ....more This project will support young people who have had a decline in mental health through the Covid-19 pandemic and families who are living in domestic abuse situations. It will cover topics like resilience skills assertiveness focus and perseverance taking responsibility empathy and calmness.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

JOSEPHINE CLARE MCCULLOUGH Appointed: 2020

JULIE CHRISTINE BOYER (Chair) Appointed: 2020

NICHOLAS MARTIN BOLAS Appointed: 2020

SAMANTHA JANE IRVINE Appointed: 2021

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 26/10/2020, number: 1191982

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Filing Record

2 returns made; all on time

Main office

CREST FARM
YELSTED ROAD
YELSTED
SITTINGBOURNE
ME9 7UU

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.

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