THE HEREFORD CATTLE SOCIETY

Registered charity 217428 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HEREFORD HERD BOOK SOCIETY

The company is the Registration Authority for Pedigree Hereford Cattle, providing services for its members throughout the UK.

Objects

TO MAINTAIN UNIMPAIRED THE PURITY OF AND IMPROVE THE BREED OF CATTLE KNOWN AS HEREFORDS, AND TO PROMOTE IMPARTIALLY THE BREEDING OF ALL THE VARIOUS TRIBES, FAMILIES AND STRAIN OF SUCH CATTLE. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION).

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £1,539,182, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover approximately 12 months of unrestricted expenditure. The charity reported a net income of £14,062 for the year, supported by investment gains, while noting that member fees have not increased since 2017 despite inflation. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Thorne Widgery Accountancy Ltd. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~26.4 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 (81% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN WILLIAM JAMES SHAW
• ANDREW HUGHES
• DAVID JAMES MAKIN
• ETHAN BROOK
• GERALD ROBIN WOOD
• George Harvey
• HELEN DIANE O'KANE
• JACQUELINE COOPER
• MARGARET GALBRAITH
• Maddie Clarke
• Michael Shaw
• NICHOLAS ANTHONY WREN · trustee of 1 other charity
• PHILIP JAMES ALLMAN
• Richard Edwards
• SARAH COOK
• WILLIAM NORMAN MCMORDIE

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRITISH BLUE CATTLE SOCIETY.

• THE BRITISH BLUE CATTLE SOCIETY income £131k
• THE BRITISH LIMOUSIN CATTLE SOCIETY LIMITED income £1.1m
• DEVON CATTLE BREEDERS' SOCIETY income £107k
• THE JERSEY CATTLE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM income £204k
• THE HEREFORD SOCIETY FOR AIDING THE INDUSTRIOUS income £171k
• THE HEREFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £6.0m

Side by side with its peers

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