THE BRITISH GRASSLAND SOCIETY

Registered charity 261800 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BGS, THE B G S

Learned society with focus on technology transfer to farmers and publication of research results.

Objects

A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF METHODS OF PRODUCTION AND UTILISATION OF GRASS AND FORAGE CROPS FOR THE PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURE AND THE PUBLIC BENEFIT. B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND OF RESEARCH INTO GRASS AND FORAGE CROP PRODUCTION AND UTILISATION , AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS OF ANY RESEARCH.

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 · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a slight decrease in total funds of £551 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by a deficit in general operations that was largely offset by unrealised gains on investments. The trustees maintain unrestricted reserves of £787,025, which they consider sufficient to meet future obligations and exceed their stated policy target of one to eighteen months of expenditure.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• 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
• 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Bess Neil
• Dafydd Parry Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Christina Louise Marley
• Dr ELIZABETH GENEVER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Felicity Victoria Crotty
• Dr PHILIP JAMES MURRAY
• Graham Parks
• James Richard White
• Luppo Doeke Diepenbroek

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 BLOOD TRANSFUSION SOCIETY.

• THE BRITISH BLOOD TRANSFUSION SOCIETY income £281k
• THE GB TRUST income £57k
• GLENDALE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £162k
• BRITISH SOCIETY OF SOIL SCIENCE income £712k
• THE BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY income £1.8m
• THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY income £21.9m

Side by side with its peers

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