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.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE, ADVANCE AND IMPROVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND RURAL CRAFTS AND SKILLS IN ALL THEIR BRANCHES BY THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK AND THE DEMONSTRATION AND SHOWING OF LIVESTOCK, MACHINERY, CRAFTS, PRODUCTS, METHODS AND PROCESSES CONNECTED WITH AGRICULTURE AND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BY THE HOLDING OF AN ANNUAL SHOW.2) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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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Registered contact address: Pembrokeshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £36,777 for the year ended 31 October 2025, compared to a deficit of £35,164 in the previous year. Total unrestricted reserves decreased slightly from £4.114m to £4.082m, while the trustees maintain that free reserves are at a level ensuring future viability. The charity remains a going concern with adequate resources expected to continue operations for at least twelve months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/10/2022 (received 06/09/2023, 6 days after the 31/08/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09124313 · Financial health read from its filings

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE DENBIGHSHIRE AND FLINTSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED.

• THE DENBIGHSHIRE AND FLINTSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £297k
• THE BURWARTON AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £352k
• THE BRECKNOCKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £139k
• HECKINGTON AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £373k
• MELPLASH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £453k
• CUMBERLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £135k

Side by side with its peers

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