What this is built from
Public information. Every figure carries the source it came from.
The sources
| Source | What it supplies |
|---|---|
| Riding for the Disabled Association’s group finder | Which groups and approved centres there are, their postcodes, what each offers and who it works with, in RDA’s words. |
| Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 | Disability under the Equality Act, for every county and unitary authority, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Charity Commission for England and Wales | What each charity is for, who for and how, where it says it operates, and its latest income, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Companies House | Legal form and company type, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government | The English indices of deprivation 2025, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| Office for National Statistics | Which area a postcode is in, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
What the register cannot say
264 of the 430 RDA groups belong to a charity on the register for England and Wales. The rest are riding schools RDA approves, which are businesses rather than charities; groups in Scotland and Northern Ireland, on their own registers; and a few named differently on the finder and on the register, left unmatched rather than guessed at.
What this will not do
- It does not contact anybody. Nothing here has been sent to any of the RDA groups.
- No telephone numbers, no personal email addresses and no full postcodes. Each one’s own website is here, because a website is a route to an organisation.
- Nothing is scored and nobody is ranked. There is no good and bad one on this site, and no figure here is divided by any one charity’s income or the people it works with.
- No claim wider than what was counted. “Neither record shows an RDA group here” is a fact about two records. “Disabled people here cannot ride” is a claim about the world, and nothing here is in a position to make it.
How current this is
Nothing here is typed in or kept up by hand. Every page is produced from the sources above, and carries the date it was made. The count of disabled people is from census day, 21 March 2021; the finder was read the day this was made.