Registered charity · Oxon
Heros
- 9 trustees
- Income £2.0m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Hannah Elizabeth DorlingChair · since 2023
- Andrew McgonnellTrustee · since 2021
- Catherine O'NeillTrustee · since 2023
- Lauren MinchinTrustee · since 2023
- Margaret Jane SuttonTrustee
- Marion BegleyTrustee · since 2024
- Richard PhillipsTrustee · since 2017
- Richard ShepherdTrustee · since 2026
- Victoria HopgoodTrustee · since 2014
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Animals
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.heroscharity.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Heros
- Registered
- 2006
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2.0m£1.6m
- 2024£1.9m£1.2m
- 2023£745k£695k
Earlier years
- 2022£561k£564k
- 2021£613k£547k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 23%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
3.1 TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE AND REHABILITATION OF RACEHORSES AND FORMER RACEHORSES AND OTHER HORSES WHICH ARE UNWANTED OR VULNERABLE TO ABANDONMENT, ABUSE, MISUSE OR NEGLECT, OR OTHERWISE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY MEANS OF RETRAINING AND REHOUSING.
Grants received
3 grants · £35,000 total360Giving 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
- Westminster Foundation · £20,000 (2 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £15,000
Most recent
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Hannah Elizabeth Dorling Chair since 2023
- Andrew Mcgonnell since 2021
- Catherine O'Neill since 2023
- Lauren Minchin since 2023
- Margaret Jane Sutton
- Marion Begley since 2024
- Richard Phillips since 2017
- Richard Shepherd since 2026
- Victoria Hopgood since 2014
Trustees past 6 years
- Richard Phillips since 2017
- Victoria Hopgood since 2014
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Hannah Elizabeth Dorling Chair since 2023
- Andrew Mcgonnell since 2021
- Catherine O'Neill since 2023
- Lauren Minchin since 2023
- Margaret Jane Sutton
- Marion Begley since 2024
- Richard Phillips since 2017
- Richard Shepherd since 2026
- Victoria Hopgood since 2014
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
7.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.2 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1115174
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18 JANUARY 2006 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 28 JUNE
- Companies House
- Company number 05679136 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07770877543 · info@heroscharity.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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