Racing Welfare

Racing Welfare is a registered human welfare charity supporting the workforce of British horseracing.

We offer professional guidance and practical help to racing’s people – including stud, stable, and racecourse staff, alongside those working in associated professions – whose dedication is vital for the wellbeing of racing. Our work aims to help people, from recruitment to retirement, to thrive in day-to-day life and through a range of life’s challenges, providing support with mental and physical health, money matters, bereavement, housing and careers.

The charity has a dedicated 24/7 support line, as well as a network of regional welfare officers located across the country. Without the generosity of our supporters, Racing Welfare simply wouldn’t be able to raise the £3m each year needed to provide these crucial, often life-changing services to racing’s people when they need us.

The Injured Jockeys Fund

The Injured Jockeys Fund provides appropriate support in a prompt and sympathetic manner to those jockeys past or present who are injured, unable to ride, or generally in need.

The Injured Jockeys Fund (IJF) was founded in 1964 following the devastating accidents to Tim Brookshaw, and then Paddy Farrell in the 1964 Grand National. Both falls resulted in severe paralysis which immediately ended both their careers. Since then the Fund has helped thousands of jockeys and their families and has paid out more than £22m in grants and charitable expenditure of £75m. The Fund has annual running costs of circa £5m.