Horse Rescue Fund

Analysis

Horse Rescue Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Beccles. It was registered in May 1978, 48 years ago. Its declared purposes cover animals, which this site groups under animals. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Horse Rescue Fund reported income of £102k and spending of £173k, spending 170% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £266k to £102k (-62%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 2,161 England and Wales charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, Horse Rescue Fund sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The New Forest Pony Breeding and Cattle Society (£101k), The Russell and Mary Foreman 1980 Charitable Trust (£102k) and Saving Strays (£101k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.