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Welsh Pony and COB Society

11 trustees
Income £642k (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: Education/training, Amateur Sport, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where: Throughout England And Wales
Website: www.wpcs.uk.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: The Welsh Pony and COB Society
Registered: 1964

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2024£642k£573k
2023£622k£684k
2022£631k£709k

Earlier years

2021£641k£619k
2020£593k£512k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(I) TO ENCOURAGE THE BREEDING AND IMPROVEMENT OF HORSES AND PONIES MORE ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE WELSH BREEDS.(II) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ALL DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES IN THE VARIOUS ARTS AND SCIENCES CONNECTED WITH THE USE AND MANAGEMENT OF HORSES AND PONIES IN GENERAL AND IN PARTICULAR OF THE WELSH MOUNTAIN PONY, THE WELSH PONY, THE WELSH PONY (COB TYPE) AND THE WELSH COB AND THEIR PART-BREDS (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS “THE WELSH BREEDS”).(III) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION, THROUGH THE USE OF HORSES AND PONIES, BUT CONFINED TO FACILITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITHIN THE MEANING AND SO AS TO SATISFY THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE RECREATIONAL CHARITIES ACT 1958.(IV) TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO AND PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF HORSES AND PONIES.

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.

11 trustees on the board

2.5y median 2y

average tenure

longest tenure

trustees past 6 years

7.9y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

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 11Animals 11Education/training 11

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

Arts and leisure 11Other services 1

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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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£642k 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.

45.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 46.1 in 2020

9 from 8 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: 222014
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/07/1971AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/02/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/03/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/09/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/04/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 07 APR 2017 as amended on 31 Jan 2022 as amended on 06 Apr 2024
Companies House: Company number 01017832 · Active
Contact on the register: 01570471754 · enquiries@wpcs.uk.com
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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