THE SUSSEX CATTLE SOCIETY (FORMERLY THE SUSSEX HERD BOOK SOCIETY)

Registered charity 238662 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Maintaining Herd Book of the Sussex Cattle BreedPromotion of the Sussex Cattle BreedAdvising on the Sussex Cattle Breed

Objects

TO MAINTAIN THE PURITY AND IMPROVE THE BREED OF SUSSEX CATTLE, AND TO DO ALL SUCH FURTHER ACTS AND THINGS AS SHALL BE CONDUCIVE TO THAT COBJECT.

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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Registered contact address: Rother, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £249,098, which exceeds its stated policy target of maintaining approximately one year of unrestricted expenditure. The charity reported a net loss of £526 for the year, driven by an unrealised loss on investments, but maintains a stable financial position with sufficient assets to continue operations.

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 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN JUSTIN HARMERchair
• Brenda Louise Hide
• DAVID LEWIS STEVENS
• David John Spanton
• Donald Walter Masters
• Jane Margaret Howard
• John David Hickman
• John Edward Harmer
• Leighton Patrick Snelgrove
• Simon Clive Wright
• WILLIAM JOHN HURLEY
• WILLIAM PETERS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: 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 SUSSEX PET RESCUE CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE SUSSEX PET RESCUE CHARITABLE TRUST income £47k
• SUSSEX WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.2m
• SALERS CATTLE SOCIETY OF THE UK LIMITED income £94k
• SOUTHDOWN SHEEP SOCIETY income £29k
• THE DEXTER CATTLE SOCIETY income £90k
• THE SUSSEX HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £123k

Side by side with its peers

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