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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 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

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

8.4y median 9y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Amateur Sport 7Disability 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.

Finance 3Property 2Professional services 1

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.

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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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£557k latest income
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

7
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
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
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