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Registered charity · Devon

The Mare and Foal Sanctuary

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £6.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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
Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire and more
Website
www.mareandfoal.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Mare and Foal Sanctuary
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.0m£6.7m
  • 2024£7.5m£6.4m
  • 2023£8.0m£5.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.9m£6.2m
  • 2021£6.1m£4.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

1. TO RESCUE AND PROVIDE CARE FOR AND PREVENT CRUELTY AND SUFFERING AMONG HORSES AND PONIES THAT ARE IN NEED OF ATTENTION BY REASON OF SICKNESS, MALTREATMENT, ILL-USAGE OR OTHER LIKE CAUSES AND TO PROVIDE TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT HOMES FOR SUCH HORSES AND PONIES. 2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS RELATING TO THE WELFARE OF HORSES AND PONIES AND THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY AND SUFFERING AMONG HORSES AND PONIES. 3. TO RELIEVE THOSE CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS IN NEED (IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE WITH PHYSICAL, MENTAL, SOCIAL OR EMOTIONAL DIFFICULTIES OR DISADVANTAGES) BY PROVIDING EQUINE-ASSISTED LEARNING AND THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITIES, IN ORDER TO ENHANCE THEIR EDUCATION AND MAKE THEIR LIVES BETTER THROUGH (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) APPROPRIATE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RIDING, HANDLING OR COMING INTO CONTACT WITH HORSES AND PONIES.

Grants received

2 grants · £20,269 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 · £11,881
  • Sport England · £8,388

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £11,8812024-04-01
  • Sport England £8,3882021-08-12
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

2.7y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
2.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 7Education/training 7

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 7Health and social care 1Other services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board
  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£7.5m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

9.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 10.9 in 2020

135 from 131 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
1141831
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30/03/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/07/2012 as amended on 13 Feb 2020
Companies House
Company number 07584914 · Active
Contact on the register
01626355969 · office@mareandfoal.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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