UNITED COUNTIES AGRICULTURAL AND HUNTERS SOCIETY

Registered charity 502809 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UNITED COUNTIES AGRICULTRUAL SOCIETY, UNITED COUNTIES AGRICULTURAL + HUNTERS SOCIETY

To promote improvements in agriculutre generally, inlcuding forestry and horticulture, by holding exhibitions thereof and to use the Charity's showground and land for the generation of income in support of such activities.

Objects

FOR THE IMPROVEMENT IN THE BREADS OF CATTLE, HORSES, SHEEP AND PIGS AND FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND ALL OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED AND APPERTAINING TO AGRICULTURE AND TO HOLD EXHIBITIONS AND OFFER PRIZES ACCORDINGLY. ALSO FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FORESTRY, POULTRY KEEPING, DOGS, ARTS AND CRAFTS.

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£187k
Latest spending
£163k
Registered
1973
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a financial surplus for the year ended 30 November 2025, reversing deficits incurred in 2023 and 2024. Total unrestricted funds increased to £1,227,437, supported by tangible fixed assets valued at £1,137,443. The trustees consider the going concern basis of accounting appropriate.

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Loan owed to Mr E Davies and family
“At the year end, the following balance was owed to Mr E Davies and family - 2025: £33,020 (2024: £47,020)” — page 15
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Governance: Charity Commission instructed reconstitution of trustees body
“The Charity Commission instructed the society a number of years ago to reconstitute the trustees body and appoint a quorum of trustees.” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Carmarthenshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/11/2025£187k£163k
30/11/2024£139k£214k
30/11/2023£151k£156k
30/11/2022£217k£175k
30/11/2021£211k£105k

Common questions

Is UNITED COUNTIES AGRICULTURAL AND HUNTERS SOCIETY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a financial surplus for the year ended 30 November 2025, reversing deficits incurred in 2023 and 2024. Total unrestricted funds increased to £1,227,437, supported by tangible fixed assets valued at £1,137,443. The trustees consider the going concern basis of accounting appropriate. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
MISS W E LAWRENCE 1973 CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT1£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THREE COUNTIES AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
UNITED COUNTIES AGRICULTURAL AND HUNTERS SOCIETY£187k—0unclear—no doubt
THREE COUNTIES AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY FY2025£8.0m£160,001 - £170,000—unclear—no doubt
THE NEWBURY AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY FY2024£900k—0below—no doubt
THE WESTMORLAND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED FY2025£883k—0above—no doubt
THE BURWARTON AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED FY2025£352k—0unclear—no doubt
RUTLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY FY2023£417k—0unclear—no doubt

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