ZWARTBLES SHEEP ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1062319 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promoting and registering Zwartbles Sheep

Objects

[A] TO PROMOTE THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURAL BY ENCOURAGING AND IMPROVING EFFICIENT BREEDING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF ZWARTBLES SHEEP.[B] TO UNDERTAKE RESEARCH IN THE SUBJECT OF SHEEP BREEDING AND MATTERS RELATING THERETO AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH . [C] TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A REGISTER OF ALL MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION AND ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A REGISTER OR HERD BOOK FOR REGISTRATION OF SHEEP IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION AND TO CLASSIFY AND MAINTAIN RECORDS OF ALL ANIMALS ENTERED IN THE SAID REGISTER OR HERD BOOK. [D] TO PROMOTE THE THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE STOCKS OF SUCH SHEEP AND TO DEVELOP AND ADVANCE THE MOST EFFICIENT AND UP TO DATE METHODS OF REARING SAME.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £812 for the year ended 28 February 2025, resulting in unrestricted fund balances of £111,036. The trustees consider these results to be satisfactory and the charity maintains a reserves policy aiming to cover one and a half years of operating expenditure. The financial statements 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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alistair Bairdchair
• Aaron Paul Breeze
• Anne Margaret Robinson
• CYRIL JAMES CROMIE
• Carrie Ann Bissett
• Colin David Rae
• Gillian Mary Blamire
• John Case
• Laura Simpson
• Pamela Browne
• Rebecca Sophie Hurd
• Susan Jane Rowlands

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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