Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 7

Volatile income
spending growth: -1
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 12

EBONY HORSE CLUB

Provide for children of Brixton an opportunity to access the sport of horse riding and also other related social activities.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

Established: 18 years

www.ebonyhorseclub.org.uk

info@ebonyhorseclub.org

02077383478

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£478	£523	£-45	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	35
31/03/22		£708	£425	£283	£0	£1,619	£980	27.7	10	123
31/03/21		£616	£355	£261	£0	£1,336	£654	22.1	7	80
31/03/20		£482	£402	£80	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	75
31/03/19		£494	£385	£109	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	65
31/03/18		£446	£408	£37	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£356	£442	£-86	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£325	£393	£-68	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£257	£327	£-69	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£241	£365	£-123	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	*	£233	£375	£-142	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£1,229	£379	£849	£39	£1,337	£246	7.8	20	0
31/03/11		£441	£156	£285	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£107	£154	£-47	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£200	£100	£100	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£74	£61	£13	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£140	£59	£80	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Lambeth,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
35 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

London Marathon Charitable Trust	£50,000
Prudence Trust	£32,000
Walcot Foundation	£14,000
Sport England	£7,600
The London Community Foundation	£5,804
The Childhood Trust	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
London Marathon Charitable Trust - Ebony Horse Club Youth Work Arch
£50,000	27/10/2021	A grant towards the renovation of a railway arch providing a dedicated youth work room.
The Childhood Trust - Ebony Horse Club 10th Anniversary Summer
£5,000	22/06/2021	Help us run a summer programme of fun, educational and supportive activities to help young people in south London. This is the club's 10th anniversary year and we want to make this summer bigger and ....more Help us run a summer programme of fun, educational and supportive activities to help young people in south London. This is the club's 10th anniversary year and we want to make this summer bigger and better than ever for our young people after such a challenging year.
Prudence Trust - Youth work and building refurbishment
£32,000	15/04/2021	Youth work (incl. youth worker and Ebony new arch youth work programme)
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Ebony Horse Club
£3,447	24/10/2020	We aim to help children in the most deprived borough of Lambeth learn new skills and raise their aspirations through horse riding.
The London Community Foundation - Young Volunteers Programme
£5,804	06/10/2020	Grant to Ebony Horse Club
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£7,600	29/05/2020 4	Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Equestrian
Walcot Foundation - COVID19 - Remote Horse Club
£14,000	07/05/2020 12	Current WF funding is for the Lead Youth Worker who is still working during this time (duties include: leading on online safeguarding and staff training for online delivery; phone outreach to ....more Current WF funding is for the Lead Youth Worker who is still working during this time (duties include: leading on online safeguarding and staff training for online delivery; phone outreach to families; 1:1 phone and Zoom mentoring; coordination of online sessions including planning sessions and targeting young people). This funding will pay part-time costs of administrator (currently unfunded) and a support worker (funded part-time) to increase capacity to deliver: Outreach to families on the phone; gathering and uploading online resources; tracking engagement; online and phone mentoring; running regular ZOOM sessions; connecting young people with each other and providing education and respite; and providing signposting to local services. The project will also fund staff training and IT resources to support online delivery, and provide families with IT provision (access to laptops and broadband) where a need is identified). 80% of the young people that EHC work with are from low income households.
Greater London Authority - Young Londoners Fund
£81,187	01/01/2019	Lambeth Riding Stars To provide weekly horse riding sessions, horse care lessons and youth worker support to develop key life skills, personal development and progress into further education and ....more Lambeth Riding Stars To provide weekly horse riding sessions, horse care lessons and youth worker support to develop key life skills, personal development and progress into further education and work, for young people who would not normally have access to the sport.
Greater London Authority - Lambeth Riding Stars
£81,187	06/10/2018	Our Lambeth Riding Stars programme gives young people access to horses and horse riding, a sport which for most would be totally out of reach. The project provides weekly riding lessons as well as ....more Our Lambeth Riding Stars programme gives young people access to horses and horse riding, a sport which for most would be totally out of reach. The project provides weekly riding lessons as well as horse care sessions and dedicated youth work to develop key life skills on top of sports participation. Being given access to a sport that they are encouraged to excel in gives our riders purpose and direction growing up in a challenging urban environment whilst our youth work supports personal development and progress into further education and the world of work.
Walcot Foundation - Ebony Horse Club Youth Project
£45,000	17/07/2018 36	Ebony Horse Club Youth Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Full & Fit
£9,930	17/05/2017 12	This project will deliver a programme of health activities and nutritious lunches that will focus upon supporting young people who are experiencing the effects of social disadvantage and obesity, ....more This project will deliver a programme of health activities and nutritious lunches that will focus upon supporting young people who are experiencing the effects of social disadvantage and obesity, with the aim of improving their mental and physical wellbeing.
Comic Relief - Project 21
£34,580	30/11/2016 24	Ebony Horse Club work in Brixton to engage hard-to-reach youth who are at risk of dropping out of school or joining gangs, and provides them with an opportunity to personally develop, earn work ....more Ebony Horse Club work in Brixton to engage hard-to-reach youth who are at risk of dropping out of school or joining gangs, and provides them with an opportunity to personally develop, earn work experience, and encourages them on various pathways into employment or education whether it is in or outside of the equestrian world. Their work starts with youth that are in their early teen years and is as preventative as it is responsive to teens that join at a later date. Over 80% of their participants come from within 1 mile of the stable which demonstrates their local connection and impact turning their neighbourhood into an area that is creating today's role models and inspiring future youth onto the right paths.
Walcot Foundation - Youth Worker
£46,000	19/07/2016 24	Youth Worker
Sport England - EHC: Raising our Games
£249,622	27/07/2015 39	Funding under Sport England's Community Sport Activation Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'EHC: Raising our Games'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports.
Walcot Foundation - Youth Worker
£22,950	21/07/2015 12	Youth Worker
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Ebony Horse Club
£59,590	11/11/2009 36	Towards Core costs Towards the salary of the director to improve the quality of life through horse riding for people in south London.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 46-73

BASIL GEORGE FRASER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Trustee

DAYON RAYMOND HAYNES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Senior Contract Manager, Other trusteeships: NUNHEAD'S VOICE LIMITED, WESTMINSTER HOUSE YOUTH CLUB,

JONATHAN EVANS Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Company Director

JULIAN WHITE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Company Director

PHILIPPA BUCHANAN Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Company Director

SUE ELLENBY Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired

SUSAN MARGRETHE COLLINS (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Company Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/09/2006, number: 1116027
Registered at Companies House on 13/02/2006, number: 05706817

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

17 returns made; AR17: 1 days late, AR13: 1 days late, AR09: 17 days late, AR07: 20 days late,

Main office

EBONY HORSE CLUB
51 MILLBROOK ROAD
LONDON
SW9 7JD

Objectives

(A) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR EQUESTRIAN ACTIVITIES AND FROM TIME TO TIME OTHER OUTDOOR PURSUITS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AGED BETWEEN 8 AND 25 YEARS OLD FROM URBAN AREAS AND ETHNIC MINORITY COMMUNITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;(B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE INCLUDING IN MATTERS RELATING TO HORSE CARE AND IN GOOD SOCIAL SKILLS AND TO INCREASE THE CONFIDENCE AND CAPACITY OF CHILDREN IN NEED OF SUPPORT; AND (C) TO ESTABLISH AND MANAGE AN EQUESTRIAN CENTRE IN THE COMMUNITY OF COLDHARBOUR WARD, LAMBETH BOROUGH IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

COLDHARBOUR WARD, LAMBETH BOROUGH.

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