01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC002041
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- More than one local authority area in Scotland
- Volunteers
- 51-100 volunteers
- Staff
- 9
- Postcode
- G23 5NA
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
To give people with disabilities the opportunity to learn to ride or drive a horse and benefit from this therapeutic activity. To Support this activity by ensuring they can learn in a pleasant, safe and supportive environment. This is achieved by providing riding sessions in groups or as individuals. We also provide therapy sessions by way of stable management sessions where participants learn to care for the horses and learn about the environment they live in. This is also delivered in group or individual sessions. Tea With a Pony is another therapy session where individuals spend time with the horses and ponies and then come together for a time of socialising over a cup of tea/coffee/Juice. All activities are open to children and adults.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of health
- the advancement of public participation in sport
- the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- People with disabilities or health problems
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
Objects 5. The Objects are specifically restricted to promote, advance, manage, effect and further the objects of the Company, that is to say the relief of disabled persons by the provision or assistance in the provision of facilities for riding so that all disabled persons who would benefit in their mental or physical health from horse and pony riding shall be given the opportunity to do so (the word 'riding' whenever the same appears includes driving, meaning the use of horse or pony drawn vehicles). to establish and provide horse and pony riding for disabled persons subject to the consent of their medical advisers and so as to promote their social welfare and improve their conditions of life by training, recreation and others forms of rehabilitation. to establish and provide facilities to the medical profession for research into the beneficial effects of riding for all types of disability on terms that the results of all such research shall be made public.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2025 | £287,285 | £367,615 | 9 | 29 June 2026 |
| 30 June 2024 | £238,079 | £308,570 | 9 | 29 March 2025 |
| 30 June 2023 | £227,765 | £284,616 | 9 | 3 June 2024 |
| 30 June 2022 | £246,522 | £290,370 | 9 | 30 March 2023 |
| 30 June 2021 | £210,602 | £248,055 | 9 | 15 February 2022 |
Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.
04 Contact record
Principal office or trustees address
- Address supplied to OSCR
- Sandyflat, Caldercuilt Road, Summerston, Glasgow
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.rdaglasgow.org
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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