FarmAbility

Registered charity 1153282 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q26253746 · also known as FARM INSPIRATION TRUST, FIT

Education using the farm environment

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION;2) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGETHROUGH LEARNING ABOUT AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE OF FARMING, THE COUNTRYSIDE AND INTERACTION WITH ANIMALS AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Oxfordshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £6,010 and unrestricted reserves of £138,140, an increase from the previous year. The trustees consider the level of unrestricted reserves relative to budgeted expenditure to be a prudent amount to cover major contingencies. The charity confirmed it has no material concerns about its ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — FarmAbility (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Garfield Weston Foundation” (source page)
• Oxfordshire Community Foundation — “Oxfordshire Community Foundation” (source page)
• The Shanly Foundation — “The Shanly Foundation” (source page)
• Pye Charitable Settlement — “Pye Charitable Settlement” (source page)
• The National Lottery Communities Fund — “The National Lottery Communities Fund” (source page)
• Oxfordshire County Council — “Oxfordshire County Council” (source page)
• The University of Oxford — “The University of Oxford” (source page)
• Chown Charitable Trust — “Chown Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Screwfix Foundation — “The Screwfix Foundation” (source page)
• The 29 th May 1961 Charity — “The 29 th May 1961 Charity” (source page)
• David Solomons Charitable Trust — “David Solomons Charitable Trust” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (52% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gillian Diane Turner Laychair
• Dr Judith Claire Samuel
• Hannah Kempsell
• Helen Saunders
• Karen Louise Steinhardt
• Lawrence Coupland
• Mark David Crosby
• Neil Sleight
• Polly Bishop

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Gloucestershire · Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 BILAL EDUCATIONAL FORUM.

• BILAL EDUCATIONAL FORUM income £59k
• LUBAVITCH EDUCATION TRUST income £311k
• HADLEIGH FARMERS' AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £323k
• SPEAR TRUST income £25k
• CREATED: CHURCH income £315k
• People's Economy income £563k

Side by side with its peers

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