THE HAMPSHIRE DOWN SHEEP BREEDERS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1058398 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as 2 HDSBA, HAMPSHIRE DOWN SHEEP BREEDERS ASSOCIATION

The charity's object and its principal activities continue to be that of breed society functions in recording pedigrees of Hampshire Down sheep and to promote the science and practice of agriculture by the encouragement of the breeding of Hampshire Down Sheep at home and abroad. The charity also undertakes research in the subject of sheep breeding, wool production and matters relating thereto.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported an operating surplus of £1,322 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £73,015 and total expenditure of £75,261. Unrestricted reserves stood at £101,494, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to at least twelve months' expenditure (approximately £75,000). The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00031195

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CLEMENTS, Amanda — director, appointed 15/11/2025not on trustee list
• FRISWELL, Stuart — director, appointed 15/11/2025not on trustee list
• PARRY, Susan — director, appointed 24/10/2025not on trustee list
• STAINTHORPE, Louis James — director, appointed 18/10/2024not on trustee list
• SHAW, Angela — director, appointed 18/10/2024not on trustee list
• GRINDEY, Hannah — director, appointed 18/10/2024not on trustee list
• TERRETT, Alexander Paul — director, appointed 27/10/2023not on trustee list
• MANNERS, Sophie Margaret — director, appointed 27/10/2023not on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Gavin — director, appointed 27/10/2023not on trustee list
• TORY, Alison Elisabeth — director, appointed 04/11/2022not on trustee list
• CAUNTER, John — director, appointed 15/11/2021not on trustee list
• HENDERSON, Donald — director, appointed 31/10/2020on trustee list
• HURST, Charles Richard — director, appointed 11/11/2019on trustee list
• SHORT, Stephen James Rushforth — director, appointed 01/11/2019on trustee list
• RUNDLE, Richard Adrian — director, appointed 27/10/2018on trustee list
• TODD, Geoffrey Kingsley — director, appointed 27/10/2017on trustee list
• JONES, Stuart Anthony, Dr — director, appointed 28/10/2016on trustee list
• MCFARLANE, Roy — director, appointed 18/02/2013on trustee list
• GALBRAITH, Judith Margaret — director, appointed 29/10/2011on trustee list
• MIDDLEDITCH, David Derek — director, appointed 29/10/2010on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Roy McFarlanechair
• Allen George McFadden
• Andrew William Jones
• Catherine Lake
• Charles Richard Hurst
• DAVID MIDDLEDITCH
• Donald Henderson
• Dr Stuart Anthony Jones
• Edward Brant
• Geoffrey Kingsley Todd
• Harry Antony Elsden
• JAMES THOMAS BIRKWOOD
• JOHN ISAAC SAMUEL MERCER
• JUDITH MARGARET GALBRAITH
• Jonathan Barnard
• KEVIN MCCARTHY
• Lucy Heywood
• Richard Adrian Rundle · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Vincent
• Steffan Harries
• Stephen Short
• TIMOTHY HUNTER

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

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