WELSH BLACK CATTLE SOCIETY

Registered charity 1159937 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WELSH BLACK CATTLE SOCIETY

The Society exists to promote and maintain the purity of the breed, which is Wales' only native breed of cattle, and to produce a Herd Book for the traceability of cattle registered during the year.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT, PROMOTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE WELSH BLACK CATTLE AND THE MAINTENANCE OF THE PURITY OF THE BREED.

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 Society reported a profit of £6,277 for the year ending 31 December 2023, with income from subscriptions, registrations, and sales commission slightly down on the previous year. The filing highlights the importance of commercial operations, specifically pavilion rental and catering income, noting that the Society is dependent on catering income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Risk management
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/08/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROWLAND ALWYN REESchair
• Christopher Thorpe
• IOAN ROBERTS
• Marian Irene Phillips · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Wyn Jones

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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