THE WILLIAM SCOTT ABBOTT TRUST

Registered charity 233603 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Farm & Country Centre including the restored mill house provide educational opportunities in farming and the countryside. Access to the let farm will be maintained with opportunities for educational tours and farming information, supplemented by the range of farm animals kept in the paddocks and pens of the centre. The provision of farm trails and walks and their interpretation will continue.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF ALL FORMS OF AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF SOUND PRACTICAL TRAINING FOR SUITABLE PUPILS IN AGRICULTURE. (FURTHER DETAILS AS PER CLAUSE 2 OF THE DEED OF TRUST)

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a net expenditure deficit of £227,844 for the year ended 31 December 2025, a significant increase from the previous year's deficit of £63,564. Despite this loss, the trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with total reserves standing at £11,349,763.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• William Scott Abbott Trust — “William Scott Abbott Trust” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~22.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (54% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David William Ashley Burgesschair
• Clare Otridge
• Duncan Pickering
• Gamze Bradshaw
• Michael Edward Grange
• Paul Fieldhouse
• Simon Leeds · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Mary Barnhurst

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COUNTRYSIDE EDUCATION TRUST.

• THE COUNTRYSIDE EDUCATION TRUST income £385k
• THE CHILDREN'S ADVENTURE FARM TRUST LTD income £1.2m
• THE NORDEN FARM CENTRE TRUST LIMITED income £1.4m
• THE TAM O'SHANTER COTTAGE URBAN FARM TRUST income £149k
• THE COUNTRY TRUST income £1.8m
• ACTON SCOTT HERITAGE FARM income £349k

Side by side with its peers

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