DRIFFIELD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1068658 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCE AND PRACTISE OF AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND KINDRED TRADES, PROFESSIONS AND ACTIVITIES. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: DRIFFIELD

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £49,348 for the year ended 30 September 2025, compared to a deficit of £19,517 in the prior year. Total income decreased to £124,227 from £147,516, while expenditure increased to £173,575 from £167,033. The trustees acknowledge the need to restore reserves to their stated policy target of £150,000 over a five-year period.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gillian Butler
• Lord Alistair William Henry Nelson
• PETER WILLIAM BRADBURY
• Richard Christopher Cook Dee · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stuart Edward Bradshaw
• Stuart Russell William Rowley
• Timothy John Burdass

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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 DORCHESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

• DORCHESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £908k
• THE DENBIGHSHIRE AND FLINTSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £297k
• LOVE DRIFFIELD income £109k
• Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust income £804k
• PEMBROKESHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £664k
• EDENBRIDGE AND OXTED AGRICULTURAL SHOW income £934k

Side by side with its peers

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