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Registered charity · Norwich

Redwings Horse Sanctuary

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Animals
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.redwings.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Redwings Horse Sanctuary
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£16m
  • 2024£15m£17m
  • 2023£15m£16m
Earlier years
  • 2022£13m£14m
  • 2021£14m£13m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO RELIEVE THE SUFFERING OF HORSES, PONIES, DONKEYS AND MULES WHICH HAVE SUFFERED FROM MALTREATMENT, NEGLECT OR POOR CIRCUMSTANCES.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS PERTAINING TO THE WELFARE OF HORSES, PONIES, DONKEYS AND MULES IN GENERAL AND THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND SUFFERING AMONG SUCH ANIMALS

Grants received

4 grants · £121,319 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £119,819 (3 grants)
  • SHAREGIFT · £1,500

Most recent

  • SHAREGIFT £1,5002024-10-11
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £49,3112024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £2,8952024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £67,6142023-04-01
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

7 trustees on the board

4.1y median 5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (3)

5
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Animals 6Education/training 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Agriculture 4Construction 2Other services 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£14.8m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

10.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 16.2 in 2020

420 from 367 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1068911
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10/03/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/11/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/05/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/06/2014 as amended on 20 Sep 2021
Companies House
Company number 03524502 · Active
Contact on the register
01508481001 · info@redwings.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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