ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND

Registered charity 209961 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7373587 · Wikipedia · also known as R A S E

AGRICULTURE AND RURAL CHARITY

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND IMPROVE THE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ART AND PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, HORTICULTURE, KINDRED ACTIVITIES AND THE HUSBANDRY OF LIVESTOCK (INCLUDING HORSES) AND LAND AND TO PROMOTE THE APPLICATION OF IMPROVED METHODS AND PROCESSES CONNECTED THEREWITH BY DEMONSTRATION AND OTHER APPROPRIATE MEANS. TO PROMOTE AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL WORK BY MAINTAINING AND CONDUCING A LEARNED SOCIETY AND BY PUBLICATIONS, GRANTS AND OTHER MEANS. TO ADVANCE RELIGION BY THE PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES AND VALUES AMONGST RURAL COMMUNITIES IN SUCH WAS AS THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Warwick, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated deficit of £697k for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by significant expenditure on charitable activities and fundraising. Per the trustees' report, total free reserves stood at £355k, which is below the stated policy target of holding at least £500k in unrestricted operating funds, although the trustees maintain a reasonable expectation of adequate resources for going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: INNOVATION FOR AGRICULTURE Companies House 08811248 · Financial health read from its filings
• Registered company of the charity Companies House RC000442

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Royal Agricultural Society (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (9 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~44.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 79.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALASTAIR MICHAEL BROOKS
• Dr HOSEIN KHAJEH-HOSSEINY · trustee of 3 other charities
• Michael Fiddes
• Paul James Westaway · trustee of 2 other charities
• Robert Nicholas Foord Drewett · trustee of 7 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• GOWER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £106k
• THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £2.5m
• ROYAL LANCASHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £406k
• HOLSWORTHY AND STRATTON AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £120k
• THE COUNCIL FOR AWARDS OF ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES income £96k
• THE ROYAL WELSH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £7.8m

Side by side with its peers

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