RUTLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1186008 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity's objects are to improve agriculture for the public benefit by the demonstration, exhibition and showing of livestock, machinery, crafts, products, methods and processes connected with agriculture and agricultural education.

Objects

TO IMPROVE AGRICULTURE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE DEMONSTRATION, EXHIBITION AND SHOWING OF LIVESTOCK, MACHINERY, CRAFTS, PRODUCTS, METHODS AND PROCESSES CONNECTED WITH AGRICULTURE AND AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

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: Rutland, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves totalled £3,174,159 as of 31 December 2025, an increase from £3,003,027 in the prior year. The charity generated a net incoming resource of £171,132 for the year, driven by a £161,406 gain on investments. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to maintain current activities on a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by JW Hinks LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~75.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (46% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Roger David Woodchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Alastair Roland Leake
• His Honour Judge Rupert Charles Mayo · trustee of 1 other charity
• JONATHAN RALPH BAKER
• Mark Kenneth Aitchison
• Robert Miles
• Sally Ann Brook Shanahan

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

Operates in: Rutland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ELLINGHAM AND RINGWOOD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

• ELLINGHAM AND RINGWOOD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £181k
• THE ROYAL WELSH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £7.8m
• CHESHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY CIO income £1.2m
• ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND income £934k
• GOSFORTH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £47k
• UNITED COUNTIES AGRICULTURAL AND HUNTERS SOCIETY income £187k

Side by side with its peers

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