Prepared for Riding for the Disabled Association by Adrian Taylor, 2026-10-05. If you work there and would rather this page came down, say so and it comes down.
Riding for the Disabled Association: what the records show, and what we could do together
Adrian Taylor runs Charity in a Box, after twenty years working in charities and public services. About Adrian.
1. What you say, and where we read it
We read your website (Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) - Transforming lives through horses) and your public channels.
“Every year, we support over 39,000 disabled children and adults, helping them improve their physical health, strengthen mental wellbeing, gain independence and discover new opportunities.” (rda.org.uk)
Figures you publish: “This is all made possible by over 13,700 volunteers, 1,700 qualified coaches, 2,800 equines, and more than 450 RDA centres.”
Your channels: linkedin (closed to readers, not read); facebook (closed to readers, not read); instagram (closed to readers, not read).
2. Riding for the disabled, from outside
83 charities are in the field by name or membership. 4,064 other charities say in their own latest report that they serve the same people.
Riding for the disabled83 charities
Education/training2,396
Disability1,982
General charitable purposes1,419
Poverty relief1,161
Health1,122
Economic/community developme…911
Arts, culture, heritage, sci…763
Amateur sport714
Recreation562
Other purposes442
Disability services241
Young people95
Learning disability58
Legal help53
Cadets42
Local infrastructure38
Young people with SEND37
Unpaid carers36
the fieldother charities naming its people, by register purposeof those, in another field on this site
Your members against the rest of the field
Measure
Members
Rest of the field
Fragile (share)
13%
9%
Government-dependent (share)
0%
3%
Reserves, months (median)
6.7
–
Income change over returns, % (median)
77.6
64.2
Report names the people (share)
68%
51%
Areas with little or no presence of your network, those with the most residents on low incomes first: Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham, Barking and Dagenham, Manchester, Blackburn with Darwen, Brent, Luton, Haringey, Rochdale.
Researchers who studied how charities support people with dementia across the United Kingdom concluded:
“National and local data sources could help charities and commissioners begin to identify inequalities of provision.”
Mayrhofer, Goodman, Lafortune, Smeeton, Littlechild, Shora and Bunn, Voluntary Sector Review, first published 2021. Read the paper.
This page is that view for your field.
3. Sample campaign
Three posts in your voice from the figures above, each with its picture, ready to use. Every figure is from public information and no charity is named.
Bluesky / X: 4,064 charities outside riding for the disabled say in their own reports that they serve the same people, against 83 in the field. Who they are, by what they do: https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/riding-for-the-disabled-association.html
LinkedIn: 4,064 charities outside riding for the disabled say in their own reports that they serve the same people, against 83 in the field. Who they are, by what they do: https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/riding-for-the-disabled-association.html
Built from public information; no charity is named.
Bluesky / X: 13% of the network's members show under three months' reserves or three years of deficits, against 9% of the rest of the field. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/riding-for-the-disabled-association.html
LinkedIn: 13% of the network's members show under three months' reserves or three years of deficits, against 9% of the rest of the field. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/riding-for-the-disabled-association.html
Built from public information; no charity is named.
Bluesky / X: 46 of England's 152 county and unitary areas have little or no presence of the network for the people counted there; Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham first. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/riding-for-the-disabled-association.html
LinkedIn: 46 of England's 152 county and unitary areas have little or no presence of the network for the people counted there; Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham first. https://www.charityinabox.uk/offers/riding-for-the-disabled-association.html
Built from public information; no charity is named.
What your field can't see from inside it: the page on our site, in full, refreshed each quarter.
£1,500, £4,000 or £9,000 a year, by your income band, never negotiated
The members' licence
Each of your members gets its own view: where it stands beside the rest of the field, what is thin in its area, who else is at work there.
included in the year
A campaign from the findings
Posts and pictures in your voice from your field's own figures, for your channels.
£250 a month
The first month: a twenty-minute call, your page in full within a week, and the first campaign posts the week after. Prices are set by income band from the public register and are the same for everyone in the band.
5. How to say yes
Reply to the email with a day that suits, call or text Adrian on the number in the email (it is on the Contact page too), or write to adrian@charityinabox.uk.
What this can and cannot say. These are counts over groups of charities and places from their own returns and reports and from national statistics. They do not rank any charity, name any, or say why. A thin field is one where the known network is thin for the people counted here, not one where nobody is helped.
Built from public information: the Charity Commission for England and Wales register and the annual reports charities file with it (OGL v3.0); Census 2021 (ONS); the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); the Claimant Count (ONS). Privacy.
