Bransby Horses

Registered charity 1075601 · since 1999bransbyhorses.co.uk·England·Updated 31 October 2026

At a glance

Open to applications

Rolling, no deadlines · unsolicited applications welcome

Key takeaways

Bransby Horses makes grants only to educational and research institutions and other equine charities, for preventing suffering to horses, so a request fits best if your organisation is one of those and your work is about equine welfare.
The grant range is not stated and the annual report gives no readable grants figure, so ask the funder about likely size before naming an amount.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, but trustees decide awards once a year from the applications received, so expect a decision to wait for that round.
The register shows no grants to institutions for the most recent year on file, so recent giving is hard to judge.
Under its stated eligibility, individuals and organisations outside those two groups should not apply.

Overview

Bransby Horses is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1075601).

Bransby Horses exists to prevent and relieve cruelty to horses, protect them from unnecessary suffering and promote public knowledge of their proper care and treatment. It can award grants from its unrestricted funds to educational and research institutions and other equine charities for preventing suffering to horses. It has around 250 equines on site and over 600 equines in foster homes around the UK.

What they fund

Profile based on the charity's Charity Commission register entry and annual report only. Every statement is checked against them. Sources read on 31 October 2026.

Priority Areas

Bransby Horses can award grants from unrestricted funds to educational and research institutions and other equine charities, for the prevention of suffering to horses. Its objects include preventing and relieving cruelty to horses, ponies, mules and donkeys, and making grants or other suitable assistance for preventing equine suffering. Trustees determine grant awards annually on the basis of applications received. The charity describes its wider work as preventing and relieving suffering to equines through rescue, lifelong care and work with communities to improve equine welfare. The stated grant recipients are educational and research institutions and equine charities; the grant purpose is prevention of equine suffering.

Themes

Equine welfare

How to apply

Educational and research institutions and other equine charities can apply for grants from unrestricted funds to prevent suffering to horses. Trustees determine awards annually based on applications received.

Who can apply:

Educational and research institutions and other equine charities

Where they fund

Registered area of operation (Charity Commission)

England

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Bransby Horses.

The Arthur Camp Foundation TrustNo public processGave £307k The Brelms TrustRollingGave £613k The Bill Brown 1989 Charitable TrustFixed deadlinesGave £56,400 Spielman Charitable TrustNo public processGave £246k E B M Charitable TrustInvitation onlyGave £1.7M The Christopher and Henry Oldfield TrustRollingGave £1.8M The Elizabeth and Prince Zaiger TrustInvitation onlyGave £632k The Kenneth & Susan Green Charitable FoundationNo public processGave £978k The Janet Nash Charitable SettlementNo public processGave £159k The Lennox Hannay Charitable TrustNo public processGave £776k

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 December 2021	£6,634,282	£6,516,524	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2021
year to 31 December 2022	£6,527,114	£7,635,538	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2022
year to 31 December 2023	£6,203,418	£8,172,284	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2023
year to 31 December 2024	£6,750,397	£7,872,341	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2024
year to 31 December 2025	£8,319,477	£7,155,462	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2025

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.