NEWARK AND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 514080 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEWARK SHOWGROUND

The promotion of agriculture and related industries via the Nottinghamshire County , Midlands Machinery and Newark Vintage Tractor Shows. Home to Notts YFC, Long Service medals, the loan of equipment to related organisations, and local shows' conference. Grants for Nottinghamshire agricultural machinery apprentices and students, educational sponsorship. Venue hire through a Trading Company.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £456,000 for the year ended 30 June 2025, a significant improvement from the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £683,000, which is above the targeted level of £354,000, and the charity confirmed it is a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2024) to £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (67% 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: 44.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANGELA MARY HARDSTAFF
• BOB SHELDON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Benjamin Knowles
• CLARE ANN Leggott · trustee of 1 other charity
• CLIVE IAN APPLEWHITE
• Colonel Roger Merryweather TD DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID M LAMBERT
• DAVID PICK
• David Angus Harbottle
• David John Rhodes
• Ian Maurice Sheldon
• JULIA DAVIES
• Jenny Saint
• Kate Thomas
• LADY HELEN NALL
• Liz Lambert
• MR CHARLIE WHITE
• MR DES ALLEN
• MR ROBIN HALL FRICS FAAV
• MRS RACHEL GASCOINE FRICS
• Mary Brown
• Neil Clarke · trustee of 1 other charity
• Patrick William White
• RICHARD ALVEY SHELDON
• ROGER EDWARD PYKETT
• Susan Ruth Hallam
• Timothy Hordern Farr · trustee of 4 other charities
• Timothy Stewart Richmond · trustee of 3 other charities
• Tony Aspbury
• Tony Strawson

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROYAL NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

• ROYAL NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £4.0m
• ELLINGHAM AND RINGWOOD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £181k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF NEWARK ON TRENT ST MARY MAGDALENE WITH ST LEONARD income £4.3m
• THE NEWBURY AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £900k
• THREE COUNTIES AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £8.0m
• NORTH SOMERSET AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £392k

Side by side with its peers

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