AGRIFOOD CHARITIES PARTNERSHIP

Registered charity 1162177 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AFCP

AFCP?s aim is to promote education and science by supporting charities working in agriculture and food production sector to make better use of their funds through collaborations and information exchange, through its website bringing together those seeking funding and charities providing this and in arranging meetings for charities, funders and researchers to share information and ideas.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC: TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND SCIENCE RELATING TO THE PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION BY PROMOTING THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES WHOSE WORK RELATES TO AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION.

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £6,008 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £30,031. The trustees confirm that the charity is prepared on a going concern basis and has no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue in business. The charity holds reserves of £30,031 against a policy target of 12 months' operating costs.

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 4 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.

• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06510709

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.

• GREEN, Sharon — director, appointed 19/11/2025not on trustee list
• REID, Stuart William John — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
• BANSBACK, Robert John, Prof — director, appointed 02/11/2022on trustee list
• ORSON, James Henry — director, appointed 17/11/2020on trustee list
• BENNETT, Gordon — director, appointed 05/11/2019on trustee list
• STEVENS, James Richard — director, appointed 05/11/2019on trustee list
• CANHAM, Michaela Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 02/11/2022

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alex Irena Payne
• Dr James Richard Stevens
• Gordon Bennett
• Ian Munnery
• James Henry Orson
• Robert John Bansback
• Stuart Reid

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FOOD FOUNDATION.

• FOOD FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• AFRICA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (UK AND EIRE) income £47k
• ASSOCIATION FOR NUTRITION income £653k
• AFRICAN PASTORS' FELLOWSHIP income £186k
• THE FARMING COMMUNITY NETWORK income £1.8m
• LINKING ENVIRONMENT AND FARMING income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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