THE DOUGLAS BOMFORD TRUST

Registered charity 1121785 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting the application of engineering to agriculture and related areas through research and education

Objects

A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND ITS IMPACT ON AGRICULTURE AND LAND MANAGEMENT; ANDB) THE ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF ALL MATTERS AND PROCESSES RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND ITS IMPACT ON AGRICULTURE AND LAND MANAGEMENT, INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TESTING AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC WORK BEARING ON THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND USE OF PROCESSES, MACHINERY, IMPLEMENTS, EQUIPMENT AND APPLIANCES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Central Bedfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust reported a deficit of £38,042 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £6,142,872. The Trustees confirm that sufficient reserves are held to cover annual expenditure and that investment income and intelligent budgeting allow all commitments to be met. The Trust operates with no employees and relies on trustee governance and self-employed secretarial support.

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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06355202

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Douglas Bomford Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• NEWBOLD, Andrew Charles — director, appointed 18/11/2025on trustee list
• TIMMS, Richmal Jane, Professor — director, appointed 21/11/2023on trustee list
• LUCAS, Julia Catherine — director, appointed 21/11/2023on trustee list
• GERAGHTY, Rebecca Louise — director, appointed 11/11/2021on trustee list
• PEARSON, Simon, Professor — director, appointed 11/11/2021on trustee list
• BAINES, John Richard — director, appointed 03/11/2020on trustee list
• AUGUST, Nicholas Wyvil — director, appointed 10/11/2015on trustee list
• MOORE, Mark Ramon — director, appointed 06/11/2013on trustee list
• WHITE, David Richard — secretary, appointed 21/11/2023

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW CHARLES NEWBOLD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr MARK Moore
• John Baines
• Julia Lucas · trustee of 2 other charities
• Nicholas Wyvil August
• Prof Richmal Jane Timms
• Professor Simon Pearson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rebecca Louise Geraghty

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

Operates in: Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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