NORTH SOMERSET AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1007694 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Agricultural Shows and educational events

Objects

To promote agriculture, horticulture, and environmental protection and improvement in North Somerset and neighbouring areas by making grants and by holding events open to the public that promote agriculture, horticulture and environmental protection and improvement, and by holding events specifically targeted at educating and training young people in the context of the main objects.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£392k

Latest spending

£366k

Registered

1992

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £19,715 for the year ended 30 September 2025, resulting in total unrestricted net assets of £741,666. The trustees confirm the charity is financially secure and has no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Liquid free reserves stood at £162,150, which the trustees consider substantial enough to meet obligations and service debt.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: no figure below £150,000 could be viewed as excessive (held: £162k)

“liquid reserves at each financial year end need to be substantial and the Management Committee presently believes that no figure below £150,000 could be viewed as excessive.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

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Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
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Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

Alex Pritchard
Andrew Clements
Billy Smith
George Atwell
Graham Plaister
SIMON HUTCHINGS · trustee of 1 other charity
Sara Cooksley
Thomas Bardwell

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

Operates in: North Somerset · Somerset

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/09/2025	£392k	£366k
30/09/2024	£342k	£355k
30/09/2023	£389k	£365k
30/09/2022	£440k	£307k
31/08/2021	£38k	£58k

Common questions

Is NORTH SOMERSET AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £19,715 for the year ended 30 September 2025, resulting in total unrestricted net assets of £741,666. The trustees confirm the charity is financially secure and has no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Liquid free reserves stood at £162,150, which the trustees consider substantial enough to meet obligations and service debt. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
DAVID LISTER CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£19k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MID-SOMERSET AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

THE MID-SOMERSET AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £253k
HOLSWORTHY AND STRATTON AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £120k
THE NIDDERDALE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £235k
NEVERN AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SHOW SOCIETY income £48k
ORSETT HORTICULTURAL AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £140k
NEWPORT AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £361k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
NORTH SOMERSET AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY	£392k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE MID-SOMERSET AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY FY2024	£253k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HOLSWORTHY AND STRATTON AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION FY2025	£120k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE NIDDERDALE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED FY2025	£235k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
NEVERN AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SHOW SOCIETY FY2025	£48k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ORSETT HORTICULTURAL AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY FY2024	£140k	—	above	—	no doubt

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