THE NEWBURY AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1003898 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GARDEN AND LEISURE SHOW, NEWBURY SHOW, THE ROYAL COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE SHOW

To promote advance and improve for the public benefit agriculture, horticulture, forestry and rural crafts and skills in all their branches and forms and to encourage interest, skill and industry in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, rural crafts and skills and all trades, crafts, businesses, and professions connected therewith.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £13,982 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total unrestricted funds standing at £1,614,321. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds excluding tangible fixed assets amount to £150,335, which is below the stated reserves policy target of between 25% and 50% of annual show expenditure. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by James Cowper Kreston Audit. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2023) to "below" (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~8.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (65% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Steven John Ackrillchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Charles Parry
• Dame Susan Mary Bourne
• David John Cyril Barr
• Paul Frankel
• Simon Anthony John Pallett
• Steven Coventry

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Hampshire · Oxfordshire · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNITED COUNTIES AGRICULTURAL AND HUNTERS SOCIETY.

• UNITED COUNTIES AGRICULTURAL AND HUNTERS SOCIETY income £187k
• NEWBURY SPRING FESTIVAL SOCIETY, LTD income £629k
• ROYAL NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £4.0m
• FROME AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £353k
• THE TENBURY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £294k
• THE BURWARTON AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £352k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.