THE ROYAL WELSH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered charity 251232 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The promotion of agriculture, horticulture, forestry and conservation, primarily through the society's Summer show, Winter fair and Spring festival.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FORESTRY AND CONSERVATION AND IN PARTICULAR IN WALES. (B) TO ADVANCE SCIENCE, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN CONNECTION WITH AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FORESTRY AND CONSERVATION, (C) TO PROMOTE THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK AND THE PREVENTION AND ERADICATION OF DISEASES IN ANIMALS USEFUL TO MAN. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION).

Area of benefit: UNRESTRICTED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · 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: Powys, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £259,409 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total net assets increasing to £14,246,915. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £2.7m are within the stated policy target of 3 to 6 months of expenditure, and the going concern basis remains appropriate.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WR Partners. 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
• 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
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — ROYAL WELSH (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 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 ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Prof Elphin Wynne Joneschair
• DAVID BRIAN JONES MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID THOMAS JAMES POWELL
• Dafydd Parry Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Emlyn Meurig James FRAgS
• Esyllt Ellis Griffiths
• Geraint Meredydd James · trustee of 2 other charities
• HOWARD NIXON · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN RHYS DAVIES FRAGS
• Janet Phillips · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Hugh Davies
• Katherine Anne Atkin-Bowdler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lowri Lloyd Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
• Menna Davies
• Mr David Gareth Roberts
• Mrs Sarah Mary Nicola Davies
• RHIAN DUGGAN
• ROBERT ALWYN REES
• Richard Hartshorn
• Richard Maurice Vaughan
• Richard Rowland Griffiths Davies
• Richard William Kenrick Price
• Robert Gwyn Edwards
• SUSAN JONES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Emlyn Bigley
• Teleri Glyn Jones
• Timothy Roger Dowdeswell
• WILLIAM HANKS
• William Meirion Owen · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Thomas Richards FRICS FAAV

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL ISLE OF WIGHT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

• THE ROYAL ISLE OF WIGHT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £210k
• WOLSINGHAM AND WEAR VALLEY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £481k
• RUTLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £514k
• ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND income £934k
• THE ANGLESEY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £636k
• ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF THE COMMONWEALTH income £32k

Side by side with its peers

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