PEMBROKESHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered charity 1160533 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote for public benefit, agriculture, horticulture, rural crafts & skills by the improvement, and showing of livestock, agricultural machinery, crafts, products, methods, processes and agricultural education in particular by holding an annual show. To provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation of individuals who have special needs to benefit their conditions of life.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £35,164 for the year ended 31 October 2024, primarily due to adverse weather affecting the County Show. Despite this deficit, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £4,114,424, which the trustees consider essential for ongoing financial security and future viability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ashmole and Co.. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09124313

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.

• LEWIS, Owain — director, appointed 26/03/2026not on trustee list
• GEORGE, Adam — director, appointed 26/03/2026not on trustee list
• BUSHELL, Sian — director, appointed 27/03/2025on trustee list
• RAYMOND, Mansel John — director, appointed 02/11/2022on trustee list
• COLE, Richard Campbell — director, appointed 16/04/2021on trustee list
• HARRIES, Delme — director, appointed 01/03/2021on trustee list
• OWEN, Nicola Elizabeth — director, appointed 10/07/2014not on trustee list
• DAVIES, Michael Stanley — director, appointed 10/07/2014on trustee list
• THORNE, Adam Robert — director, appointed 10/07/2014not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (67% 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: 31.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL STANLEY DAVIESchair
• ADAM ROBERT THORNE BSC [HONS] RURAL LAND MNGMT
• Delme Harries
• JOHN LEWIS
• Mansel John Raymond
• NICOLA ELIZABETH OWEN FCCA
• ROGER JAMES MATHIAS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Cole
• Sian Bushell

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

Operates in: Pembrokeshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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