Common questions about The British Horse Society's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The British Horse Society a good charity? +
The British Horse Society scores 92 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 96% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is The British Horse Society a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The British Horse Society as a registered charity (charity number 210504). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=210504&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is The British Horse Society's charity number? +
The British Horse Society's charity number is 210504. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is The British Horse Society's charity rating? +
The British Horse Society scores 92 out of 100 on CharityCompare (5 stars — Exceptional). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does The British Horse Society have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The British Horse Society. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches The British Horse Society? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 96% of The British Horse Society's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are The British Horse Society's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 4% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 5% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The British Horse Society. The British Horse Society's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 17 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The British Horse Society receive? +
The British Horse Society reported £16m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The British Horse Society's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-08). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The British Horse Society based? +
The British Horse Society's registered contact address is in Coventry (CV8 2XZ). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, with a focus on animals.
How much is The British Horse Society's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The British Horse Society's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 17 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does The British Horse Society's money come from? +
The British Horse Society reported £16m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were charitable activities £15m (92%), donations and legacies £489k (3%), trading and fundraising events £448k (3%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £22k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The British Horse Society? +
The register records The British Horse Society as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are The British Horse Society's trustees paid? +
The British Horse Society's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for acting as a trustee; payments for providing services). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
When was The British Horse Society registered as a charity? +
The British Horse Society was entered on the register on 22 September 1962. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00444742).
How does CharityCompare score The British Horse Society? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The British Horse Society's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The British Horse Society's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.