The Charity Commission has re-instated The National Equine Training Trust onto the Register of Charities, after taking action to protect the charity’s land from being lost.
The Commission has also appointed two new trustees to run the charity.
The charity’s aims are to provide education and training on the care and welfare of equine animals, as well as to prevent and relieve their suffering.
The charity was removed from the Register in 2013 after it was found to be inactive; the trustees had failed to file any annual returns, had not responded to the Commission’s attempts to contact them and there had been no transactions in or out of the charity’s bank account since January 2015.
The Commission launched its statutory inquiry into The National Equine Training Trust in April 2020, after discovering that the charity still owned a piece of land in Sevenoaks, Kent, registered with HM Land Registry as the Gwendoline Walker Donkey Centre.