THREE COUNTIES AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 511868 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Three Counties Agricultural Society's charitable objectives are to promote agriculture, horticulture, arboriculture, apiculture, rural skills and crafts, and conservation for the public benefit. We fulfil our objectives through staging annual shows with a programme of educative content at our showground in Malvern, administering educational bursary schemes, and other educational activities.

Causes: Education/training · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources increased by 10% to £7,980k, resulting in a net surplus of £633k before investment gains. Free reserves stood at £1,858k, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover up to twelve months of administration and governance costs. The charity maintains positive operating cash flow and has no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £150,001 - £160,000 (FY2024) to £160,001 - £170,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• New CEO at Three Counties Agricultural Society ledburyreporter.co.uk · 10/12/2022

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• River Severn Partnership Advanced Wireless Innovation Region — “The Sensor Project . This is a new weather station and sensor suite that uses advanced LoRa WAN technology to monitor environmental and safe…” (source page)
• Department for Science, Innovation and Technology — “The Sensor Project . This is a new weather station and sensor suite that uses advanced LoRa WAN technology to monitor environmental and safe…” (source page)
• UK Government — “Make substantial improvements to the Showground campsite so it’s more welcoming, has better facilities and the season of use can be extended…” (source page)
• Malvern Hills District Council — “Make substantial improvements to the Showground campsite so it’s more welcoming, has better facilities and the season of use can be extended…” (source page)
• Visit Worcestershire — “Undertake training and purchase equipment to enhance accessibility for visitors, such as ticket office hearing loops. Funded by Visit Worces…” (source page)
• Hereford Corn Exchange Trust — “Access funding from the Hereford Corn Exchange Trust to support Herefordshire schools’ participation in our shows and the careers fair.” (source page)
• Farming in Protected Landscapes — “Farming in Protected Landscapes funding to maintain and promote the National Collection of Perry Pears and restore the Apple orchard this wi…” (source page)
• The Coronation Living Heritage Fund — “The Coronation Living Heritage Fund paid for 76 new trees for the National Perry Pear Collection . £9,305 awarded, adding 56 different varie…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADRIAN HOPE
• Clive Roads
• DAVID SMART
• Glyn Morgan MBE DL
• James Hawkins
• Jonathan Charles Chenevix-Trench
• Laura Hamilton
• Michael Weaver
• Nicholas Dee
• Professor Tamar Judith Thompson OBE
• ROGER JAMES PHILLIPS · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · Herefordshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

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

• UNITED COUNTIES AGRICULTURAL AND HUNTERS SOCIETY income £187k
• STAFFORDSHIRE& BIRMINGHAM AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £2.1m
• FROME AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £353k
• RUTLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £417k
• THE BURWARTON AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £352k
• WEST GRINSTEAD & DISTRICT PLOUGHING & AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £104k

Side by side with its peers

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