## **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**
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||Robert Gaiger|Chairman|||
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||Eleanor Kerr|Secretary|||
||Caroline Steggles||||
||Helen Yazhekov||||
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||Clare Stubbins||||
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**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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|**1180573**
**RIDING FOR THE DISABLED - EXETER GROUP**
06.04.24
05.04.25
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**For the period**
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**RIDING FOR THE DISABLED - EXETER GROUP**
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**from**|**1180573**
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**Receipts andpayments accounts**
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**from**|**1180573**
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**Receipts andpayments accounts**
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**from**|06.04.24
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|**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 £**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**4,289**
**434**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,723**
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**-**
**-**
**4,723**
**3,850**
**60**
**441**
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**122**
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**-**
**4,473**
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**-**
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**4,473**
**250**
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**22,086**
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**to the nearest £**|
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|**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_ **|||||||
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||**22,086**|**-**|**-**||**22,086**|**-**|
||**22,336**|**-**|**-**||**22,336**|**-**|
## **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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|**B4 Assets retained for the**||||||||||**-**|||**-**||
|**charity’s own use**||||||||||**-**|||**-**||
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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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