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At the beginning of 2017, the Marketing and Communications department had 14 employees. Within less than 2 years there are only 2 employees left from this original team. That is a staff turnover rate of 87%. While 12 employees have left during this period, another 3 employees have started and...

Prior to the current CE, The British Horse Society was an Investors in People organisation. Investors in People is the standard for people management. The standard defines what it takes to lead, support and manage people well for sustainable results. In the 2012 annual report The British Horse...

Hi The Bouncing Bog Trotter The only detail regarding the trustees is available here http://www.bhs.org.uk/our-charity/about-us-and-our-work/our-people/trustees There is some limited information about the CE here http://www.bhs.org.uk/our-charity/about-us-and-our-work/our-people I can’t...

Hi SO1 Yes the expenditure could have been on the website, were it not for the information in the 2012 annual report that states that the new website was launched in that year when expenditure was at its lowest. Therefore the increase in expenditure must be related to other IT activity. You...

I have been looking at expenditure in the BHS from the annual accounts. Expenditure for Membership from 2012 until 2017 has remained static. However, at the same time expenditure for IT has grown exponentially. In 2012 The British Horse Society spent £258,869 on IT. In 2017 The British Horse...

Unfortunately it's not possible to track down the actual staff turnover figures. LinkedIn is a good source to ascertain an estimated turnover rate but I am mindful that only 56% of males use LinkedIn and 44% females, and this is potentially likely to be lower in the equestrian industry...

Over the last 4 years the BHS has paid out £125,219 in redundancy or termination payments to leavers. Unfortunately not all of the annual reports list this detail. However I can see that in the first year, the CE made 3 directors redundant so the total costs for removing people from the...

Apologies. I forgot to add that an additional 3 directors from the original senior management team (ie when the CE started) have also left the BHS. Therefore that's a total of 14 directors that have left the BHS in 5 years.

I thought I'd investigate this a little further. I have gone through each of the annual reports from when the current CE started at the BHS (appointed 26 November 2012). Janet you are correct. When the CE started she had a team of 5 directors. In 5 years she has increased the number of...

I know a number of centres who have been crippled by business rates but you do make a very valid point JanetGeorge. I would like to know how many centres have decided that it's simply not worth having the BHS name anymore.

I've read that the BHS Approved Centres are closing at an alarming rate (according to the annual report last year numbers dropped from 822 to 767), and yet my understanding is that the BHS is focusing its attentions on China where it can help the upper and middle classes who have recently...

Sorry to go back to the accounts again (http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/DocumentList.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=210504&SubsidiaryNumber=0&DocType=AccountList) but I want to understand how our donations are being used and I believe figures talk facts. To...

And for the record I don't have a problem with people being paid a decent salary if they are doing a good job. After all we all have bills to pay. Obviously the CEO is being paid a hefty amount but I wonder how the split is of male to female salaries. I'm guessing the male directors are in the...

Sorry I missed the first line of your costs Archangel... £70k on redundancy and termination?! I don't believe there were any redundancies last year which means £70k on termination. Do they honestly think they can just continue to pay people off and that the truth won't come out?

Thanks for sharing Archangel. I forgot that this information is publicly available. Makes for interesting reading in my opinion. Am I reading this correctly... that Legal, professional and audit fees were £105,629 last year?! Which incidentally was a 220% increase in costs from 2016? Wow! What...