## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1st January 2024 To 31st December 2024** **Charity name: Exeter Equine Care Trust** **Charity registration number: 1188994** ## **Objectives and Activities** ## **Exeter Equine Care Trust was established as a charity for the following purpose:-** ## **Activities during the period:-** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To promote humane behaviour towards
animals by providing appropriate care,
protection, treatment and security for
horses which are in need of care and
attention as a result of their owners being
unable to care for them, or rehome them by
providing a home for as long as needed
where the horse’s retirement, behavioural
or health needs will be managed, and
where possible, they will be rehomed safely
elsewhere.
To educate the public in matters pertaining
to equine welfare and the prevention of
cruelty and suffering.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Trustees focussed in 2024 on continuing to
ensure sufficient volunteer support was
available to meet the welfare needs of
retired horses and increasing the
community engagement activity
programme.
Trustees focused energy on online
engagement with supporters and donors,
with a website refresh, an increased social
media profile and new donation methods
being set up.
Trustees planned additional fundraising to
increase reserves against extra-ordinary
vet expenses for retired horses.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Trustees 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 information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| ||SORP reference|| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Not applicable| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|Not applicable| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Trustees would like to thank the daily
contribution from volunteers at Hilltop
without whom we would not be able to
provide the level of equine welfare our
retired horses deserve, nor engage with
community groups.| |Other||Not applicable| |||| ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|Working with the riding school located on
site the charity was able to interact with the
public at events to promote equine welfare,
and run an inclusive volunteer programme
which provides opportunities for personal
wellbeing, good health and learning
through interaction with the horses.| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|Not applicable| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|Not applicable| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|Not applicable| |Other||Not applicable| |||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Total receipts on unrestricted funds were
£5,079 from fund-raising and donations in
2024.
Payments of £1,617 were made to third
parties in 2024, in addition to volunteer
time and donated goods.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Trustees have an agreed aim to
establish unrestricted reserves of £6k being
sufficient to support 4 horses extra-ordinary
needs for a year. This was achieved in
2024.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£7,382 at 31st December 2024| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Not applicable| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|Not applicable| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|Not applicable| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Not applicable| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|Not applicable| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Not applicable| |Other||Not applicable| |||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|We are are a Charitable Incorporated
Organisation (CIO) registered with the
Charity Commission on 9 April 2020,
registration number 118894| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Trustees are nominated and elected
according to the adopted constitution.
During the period there were no changes to
the initially appointed Trustees.
Meetings are chaired by appointment
amongst attending Trustees at each
meeting.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|Not applicable| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|Not applicable| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|Not applicable| |Other||Not applicable| |||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Exeter Equine Care Trust| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| ||||| |---|---|---|---| ||Registered charity number|1188994|| ||Charity’s principal address|Hilltop Riding School|| |||Pennsylvania Road|| |||Exeter|| |||EX4 5BN|| ||||| ||||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||||| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||
**Director name**||| ||Not applicable||| ||||| Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** Not applicable ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets NONE held in this capacity Name and objects of the Not applicable charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for Not applicable safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** Not applicable **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Not applicable ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details Not applicable ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature**||| |---|---|---| |**Full name(s)**|Katherine
Hoskins|Sonia Lowe| |**Position**|Treasurer|Trustee| |**Date**|31/3/25|31/3/25| **----- Start of picture text -----**
Exeter Equine Care Trust 1188994
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## **Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y** **CC16a** **For the period** 1/1/24 31/12/24 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £** ## **A1 Receipts** |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Donations||**3,449**||||**-**||||**-**||||**3,449**||||**402**|| |Fundraising proceeds||**1,630**||||**-**||||**-**||||**1,630**||||**210**|| |||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**5,079**||||**-**||||**-**||||**5,079**||||**612**|| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**(see table).**|||||||||||||||||||||| |||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||||| |||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **||**5,079**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**5,079**||||**612**|| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||||||||| |Administration and Fundraising||**385**||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**385**||||**65**|| |Equine supplies(bedding, feed, worming,||**1,232**||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**1,232**||||**-**|| |~~)~~|||||||||||||||||||||| 09/18/2025 1 ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**1,617**||**-**||**-**||**1,617**||**65**| |**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||||||||| |||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||||| |||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_**||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **||**1,617**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**1,617**||||**65**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**3,462**||||**-**||||**-**|||||**3,462**||||**547**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**3,421**||||**500**||||**-**|||||**3,921**||||**3,373**|| |**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**6,883**||||**500**||||**-**|||||**7,383**||||**3,920**|| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
Bank and Cash
**_Total cash funds_**|**to nearest £**
**6,883**
**-**
**-**
**6,883**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**500**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||**6,883**|**500**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**6,883**|**500**|**-**| 09/18/2025 2 ## **B2 Other monetary assets** ## **B3 Investment assets** ## **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** |**Details**
Not applicable
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|OK| |---|---|---|---| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |Not applicable|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| |**Details**
Not applicable|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---|---| |Not applicable||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |**Details**
Not applicable|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---|---| |Not applicable||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| 09/18/2025 3 |**-**||**-**| |---|---|---| |**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**| ## **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |**Details**
Not applicable|**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**When due**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---|---| |Not applicable||**-**|| |||**-**|| |||**-**|| |||**-**|| |||**-**|| |||| |---|---|---| |Signature|Print Name
Kate Hoskins(Treasurer)
Sonia Lowe (Trustee)|Date of
approval| ||Kate Hoskins(Treasurer)|9/2/25| ||Sonia Lowe (Trustee)|9/2/25| 09/18/2025 4