ESSEX FARMERS TRUST

Registered charity 1172540 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NFU ESSEX CHARITABLE TRUST

The NFU Essex Charitable Trust was created to further the understanding of farming and the countryside in Essex, as well as offering support to those in need and involved in agricultural and rural communities in the county. The funds were originally collected from farmers within the county and used to support the local work of the National Farmers Union.

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN WILDLIFE, PROTECTION OF THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT, AGRICULTURE, COUNTRY LIFE AND RELATED SUBJECTS.2. TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST AGRICULTURAL STUDENTS STUDYING IN OR RESIDENT IN ESSEX WHO ARE IN NEED OR TO PROMOTE THEIR EDUCATION, INCLUDING BY WAY OF EDUCATIONAL BURSARIES.3. TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO FARMERS, FARM WORKERS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS WHO LIVE IN ESSEX IF THEY ARE IN NEED (INCLUDING BY REASON OF THEIR SUFFERING FROM ILLNESS, ACCIDENT, BEREAVEMENT, DISABILITY, DEPRESSION, REDUNDANCY OR STRESS) BY PROVIDING GRANTS.4. TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO PEOPLE IN RURAL COMMUNITIES IN ESSEX WHO ARE IN NEED (INCLUDING BY REASON OF THEIR SUFFERING FROM ILLNESS, ACCIDENT, BEREAVEMENT, DISABILITY, DEPRESSION, REDUNDANCY OR STRESS) BY PROVIDING GRANTS.5. TO MAKE GRANTS TO OTHER CHARITIES SUPPORTING FARMERS IN NEED AND/OR PEOPLE IN RURAL COMMUNITIES WHO ARE IN NEED.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Braintree, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £348,843 at the year end, which is a decrease from the previous year's £325,672. The trustees report that the charity is awarding grants in excess of its income, thereby eroding its capital, but confirm there are no uncertainties about continuing as a going concern.

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 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2022 (received 07/03/2024, 312 days after the 30/04/2023 due date); year ending 30/06/2021 (received 07/03/2024, 677 days after the 30/04/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Belinda Jane Littler
• CAROLE BUTLER
• CHARLES COURTENAY TRITTON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Christopher Barr
• James Alexander Turnbull · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew Peter Unwin
• Nicholas James Percival

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EAST SUSSEX FARMERS' BENEVOLENT FUND.

• EAST SUSSEX FARMERS' BENEVOLENT FUND income £106k
• ESSEX AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £100k
• ESSEX PARTNERSHIP UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST CHARITIES income £115k
• ESSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £8.5m
• THE ESSEX HERITAGE TRUST income £86k
• THE NFU MUTUAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.2m

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