Registered charity · Essex
Chigwell Riding Trust for Special Needs
- 7 trustees
- Income £557k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
- Education/training, Disability, Amateur Sport, Animals and 1 more
- Where
- Barking And Dagenham, Redbridge, Essex
- Website
- www.chigride.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Pony Riding for the Disabled Trustee (Chigwell) Company
- Registered
- 1963
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£557k£346k
- 2024£241k£344k
- 2023£245k£335k
Earlier years
- 2022£373k£322k
- 2021£218k£285k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 11%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
(1) THE RELIEF OF DISABLED AND INFIRM PERSONS (WITH THE APPROVAL OF CONSENT OF THEIR MEDICAL ADVISERS) BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR HORSE AND PONY RIDING AND DRIVING INTENED TO PROMOTE THEIR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING AND RECREATION AND MORE ESPECIALLY THEIR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL REHABILITATION AND WELL-BEING; (2) THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE OF RESEARCH INTO THE EFFECTS OF HORSE AND PONY RIDING FOR THE PURPOSES AFORESAID.
Grants received
2 grants · £1,059 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
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Fran Maskell Chair since 2018
- Dr Joanna Elizabeth Thomas
- Emma Jane Padfield since 2017
- John Woodcock
- Richard Pohl since 2015
- Sally Ann Crone since 2023
- Sophie Lingfield since 2015
Trustees past 6 years
- Fran Maskell Chair since 2018
- Emma Jane Padfield since 2017
- Richard Pohl since 2015
- Sophie Lingfield since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Fran Maskell Chair since 2018
- Dr Joanna Elizabeth Thomas
- Emma Jane Padfield since 2017
- John Woodcock
- Richard Pohl since 2015
- Sally Ann Crone since 2023
- Sophie Lingfield since 2015
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
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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
0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 212644
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SCHEME OF COMMISSIONERS DATED 29TH JANUARY 1993 AS AMENDED 9 FEBRUARY 2000
- Companies House
- Company number 02717027 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02085006051 · ken@chigride.org.uk
- 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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