THE FARM SAFETY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1159000 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Farm Safety Foundation (Yellow Wellies) is changing attitudes to risk-taking and mental health in UK farming. Through dynamic education programmes, impactful engagement, free resources and pioneering research, it is empowering young farmers to live and farm well. Since 2014, it has trained over 30,000 young farmers and reached millions with annual campaigns Farm Safety Week and Mind Your Head.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF FARM AND AGRICULTURAL SAFETY;(B) TO ADVANCE HEALTH AND SAVE LIVES THROUGH UNDERTAKING AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO FARM AND AGRICULTURAL ACCIDENTS AND THE MOST APPROPRIATE WAYS TO REDUCE AND MITIGATE THESE; (C) TO ADVANCE HEALTH AND SAVE LIVES THROUGH WORKING WITH MANUFACTURERS AND SUPPLIERS OF FARM AND AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT TO IMPROVE THE SAFETY OF SUCH EQUIPMENT AND REDUCE FARM AND AGRICULTURAL ACCIDENTS;(D) TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF FARM WORKERS, DWELLERS, THE RURAL COMMUNITY AND ALL OTHERS AFFECTED BY FARMING AND AGRICULTURAL ACCIDENTS BY PROVIDING FACILITIES AND SUPPORT SERVICES; AND(E) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES THAT ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED BY THE TRUSTEES.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stratford-on-Avon, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves stood at £642,731, which is above its stated policy target of £257,000. The trustees consider the financial position satisfactory and have adopted the going concern basis, citing adequate resources and cash flow to continue operations for at least 12 months. The charity reported a net deficit for the year of £57,907, primarily due to expenditure exceeding income.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Deloitte LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Farm Safety Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Craig Davidson
• James Arthur Dillon Speers · trustee of 1 other charity
• James William Wade Stevens
• Joanna Pauline Lumani
• Martin Paul Grantley-Smith · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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

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 WE ARE FARMING MINDS.

• WE ARE FARMING MINDS income £565k
• WALES FEDERATION OF YOUNG FARMERS CLUBS income £771k
• WALESBY FOREST income £1.5m
• THE FARMING COMMUNITY NETWORK income £1.8m
• THE DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION OF YOUNG FARMERS CLUBS income £93k
• LINKING ENVIRONMENT AND FARMING income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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