2025-04-05-accounts - Riding For The Disabled - Exeter Group

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 06 04 2024 To 05 04 2025

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name RIDING FOR THE DISABLED - EXETER GROUP Other names charity is known by EXETER RDA Registered charity number (if any) 1180573 Charity's principal address GULLIFORD HOUSE MAMHEAD EXETER EX6 8HH

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Robert Gaiger	Chairman
	Clive Richards	Treasurer
	Eleanor Kerr	Secretary
	Caroline Steggles
	Helen Yazhekov
	Kristen Birt
	Stephanie Shanahan
	Clare Stubbins
	Catherine Rowlands
	Helen Edwards
	Camilla Melksham









	Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) We are a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) registered with the How the charity is constituted Charity Commission No: 1180573 dated 5 November 2018. (eg. trust, association, company) Trustees are elected through nomination by the voting members of the Trustee selection methods group at the AGM. Specific posts include Chairman, Treasurer and (eg. appointed by, elected by) Secretary.

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include Exeter RDA works with the parent organisation RDA UK (Charity No. additional information, where 244108). relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The objects for which the charity is established are to promote the objects of the Riding for the Disabled Association incorporating Carriage Driving, a charity registered under charity number 244108 ("RDA"), by providing disabled children in the Exeter area with the opportunity to ride to benefit their health and well-being.

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Weekly horse riding sessions are provided specifically for children with disabilities in order for them to gain therapeutic benefit and have the opportunity to achieve.

The Group works with children with a range of disabilities and reasons for taking part. The Group provides specialist tuition, training and support for people with disabilities to ride and take part in non-riding, equestrianrelated activities. Without our support, most of our participants would be unable to take part in these activities.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

The core purpose of the charity is to benefit the health and well-being of children with disabilities through the delivery of effective and life enhancing therapy, the opportunity to learn new skills and achieve personal goals and ambitions and the chance to enjoy taking part in a social activity that promotes general well-being.

We have complied with our duty to have due regard to the commission's public benefit guidance when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

We would like to thank our large group of extremely dedicated volunteers, without whom we would not be able to operate as we do.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

We cater for young riders with a wide range of physical and mental disabilities, principally autism and cerebral palsy but also including deafness, learning disabilities, developmental delay and Down’s syndrome.

There are very few opportunities in the area we serve for children with disabilities to learn to ride within a supportive, RDA-approved environment, taught by RDA qualified instructors.

During the course of 2024/25 we ran groundwork sessions for those children who don't wish to ride but would benefit from becoming more familiar with ponies through grooming sessions.

We have also run "Tea with a Pony" sessions, a new meaningful activity to help those living with dementia and other long term conditions. RDA created Tea With a Pony in response to the growing number of people living with dementia, for whom horse-riding may not be suitable but who might be helped by some other form of animal-assisted activity involving horses.

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the It is our aim to have sufficient balance of unrestricted funds that equates charity’s policy on reserves to a total of about three years running costs.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

None.

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;

Our principal source of funds is from donations and fundraising.

Total receipts on unrestricted funds were £4,289 and the main source of income continues to be from donations.

The funds are used to hire horses and ponies which support the key objectives of the charity to provide therapeutic riding sessions for disabled children.

investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) CLIVE RICHARDS Full name(s) ROBERT GAIGER Position (eg Secretary, Chair, CHAIRMAN TREASURER etc) Date 16 January 2026

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	For the period from	06.04.24 Period start date	To	05.04.25 Period end date

Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ A1 Receipts DONATIONS 4,289 INTEREST 434 - - - - - - *Sub total(Gross income for AR)4,723* A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - Sub total - Total receipts 4,723 A3 Payments HIRE OF HORSES AND RELATED CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES 3,850 BANK CHARGES 60 INSURANCE 441 TRAINING COURSES - DBS CHECKS 122 - - - - Sub total 4,473 A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) - - Sub total - Total payments 4,473 Net of receipts/(payments) 250 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 22,086 Cash funds this year end 22,336		Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ 4,289 434 - - - - - - 4,723 - - - 4,723 3,850 60 441 - 122 - - - - 4,473 - - - 4,473 250 - 22,086 22,336	Last year to the nearest £
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

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B1	Cash funds	Total of Bank Balances				22,336		-		-

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			*Total*	*cash funds*		22,336		-		-
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	CCXX R1 accounts (SS)	Details		1		to nearest £		to nearest £	18/01/2026 to nearest £

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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees		Signature		Print Name			Date of approval
	CLIVE RICHARDS			TREASURER				08.07.25
	ROBERT GAIGER			CHAIRMAN				08.07.25

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18/01/2026