THE MORLEY AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1097174 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Foundation exists to promote for public benefit the study and knowledge of agricultural science and the application of modern techniques to agriculture and husbandry in all their branches.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE STUDY AND KNOWLEDGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND THE APPLICATION OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUES TO AGRICULTURAL AND HUSBANDRY IN ALL THEIR BRANCHES, INCLUDING (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING WORDS) THE BREEDING, FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT OF LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY, HORTICULTURAL AND SILVICULTURE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE MORLEY ST BUTTOLPH

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's free reserves amounted to £3,061,909 at 31 August 2024, a significant increase from the previous year. The trustees report adequate resources to continue in operational existence and confirm no material uncertainties regarding going concern. The charity's incoming resources increased to £600,171, driven largely by rental and dividend income, which enabled the foundation to meet its objectives and fund grant-making activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MA Partners Audit LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2021 (received 18/07/2022, 18 days after the 30/06/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04712419

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.

• SARGENT, William Toby — director, appointed 12/02/2026not on trustee list
• MUTIMER, Patrick — director, appointed 02/02/2023on trustee list
• HADINGHAM, Benjamin William Robert — director, appointed 05/02/2020not on trustee list
• LORD, Susan Elizabeth — director, appointed 05/02/2020not on trustee list
• RAWSTHORNE, Stephen — director, appointed 18/01/2018on trustee list
• EVANS, Timothy Simon — director, appointed 26/01/2017on trustee list
• WILBOURN, Richard — director, appointed 20/01/2016on trustee list
• HILL, Christine Elizabeth Alexandra Paterson — director, appointed 08/10/2003on trustee list
• STEED, Nicholas John — director, appointed 26/03/2003on trustee list
• CANHAM, Michaela Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 19/10/2017

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

18 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (17 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~232.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (72% 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: 57.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ben Hadingham
• CHRISTINE ELIZABETH ALEXANDRA HILL
• NICHOLAS JOHN STEED
• Patrick Mutimer
• Richard Wilbourn
• Stephen Rawsthorne
• Sue Lord
• TIMOTHY SIMON EVANS

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 THE ANGLESEY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

• THE ANGLESEY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £636k
• RUTLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £514k
• THE YEOVIL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £59k
• THE MID-SOMERSET AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £253k
• PERRY FOUNDATION income £198k
• LINKING ENVIRONMENT AND FARMING income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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