AVON BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 271717 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AVON COUNTY BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION

The promotion and furtherance of the craft of beekeeping and advancement of education of the public in the importance of bees in the environment

Objects

TH ADVANCE THE SCIENCE OF APICULTURE AND TO PROMOTE AND FOSTER THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC THEREIN.

Area of benefit: THE FORMER COUNTY OF AVON

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£63k

Latest spending

£63k

Registered

1976

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total monetary assets were £49,480, with unrestricted funds of £45,063. The charity reported a surplus of £828 for the year, and the trustees consider the current cash reserves acceptable as they cover more than one year's income from voluntary sources.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: minimum level of reserves... to cover the next year’s projected expenditure... not be more than three times the minimum (reserves figure: £45k)

“The overriding policy is to ensure that the Association and each of its branches shall end each year with a minimum level of reserves and available funds to enable each to cover the next year’s projected expenditure. The funds shall not be more than three times the minimum unless established to meet anticipated costs of improving or replacing apiary facilities by one or more branches.” — page 2

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — AVON BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

NEIL CAMPBELLchair · trustee of 1 other charity
ANNE ROWBERRY · trustee of 1 other charity
David Mark Hunter · trustee of 3 other charities
ERIC HAROLD SORTWELL
Jim Daniels
PAUL MOORHOUSE · trustee of 1 other charity
ROBERT WILLIAM DUNKIN FRANCIS

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/10/2025	£63k	£63k
31/10/2024	£66k	£80k
31/10/2023	£58k	£53k
31/10/2022	£58k	£47k
31/10/2021	£40k	£34k

Common questions

Is AVON BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total monetary assets were £49,480, with unrestricted funds of £45,063. The charity reported a surplus of £828 for the year, and the trustees consider the current cash reserves acceptable as they cover more than one year's income from voluntary sources. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	20/11/2009	£10k	New Apiary Educational Facility for Bath District

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF FRINDSBURY WITH UPNOR & CHATTENDEN	1	£265

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DEVON BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION.

DEVON BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION income £130k
MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION income £78k
CAMBRIDGESHIRE BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION income £53k
SHEFFIELD BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION income £44k
ST ALBANS & DISTRICT BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION CIO income £34k
THE BRITISH BEE CHARITY income £46k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
AVON BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION	£63k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
DEVON BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION FY2025	£130k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION FY2025	£78k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
CAMBRIDGESHIRE BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION FY2025	£53k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SHEFFIELD BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION FY2025	£44k	—	0	above	21.4%	no doubt
ST ALBANS & DISTRICT BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION CIO FY2025	£34k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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