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.

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE AGRICULTURE AND TO SUCH END GENERALLY TO IMPROVE IT IN ALL ITS BRANCHES AND TO ENCOURAGE SKILL AND INDUSTRY IN IT AND IN ALL TRADES, CRAFTS AND PROFESSIONS CONNECTED WITH IT. (2) TO PROMOTE INDUSTRY IN GENERAL. (3) TO HOLD IN PURSUANCE OF ITS MAIN OBJECT AN ANNUAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW PROVIDED THAT THE SOCIETY SHALL NOT BE OBLIGED TO HOLD A SHOW IN ANY YEAR IN RELATION TO WHICH THE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETYSHALL RESOLVE THAT THE HOLDING OF SUCH SHOW IS IMPRACTICABLE OR NOT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE SOCIETY.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newark and Sherwood, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 01/07/2024, 62 days after the 30/04/2024 due date); year ending 30/06/2022 (received 03/05/2023, 3 days after the 30/04/2023 due date); year ending 30/06/2021 (received 15/06/2022, 46 days after the 30/04/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 4.7 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 5.3%) (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 NEWPORT AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

• NEWPORT AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £361k
• THE NEWBURY AND DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £937k
• NEVERN AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SHOW SOCIETY income £48k
• THE BRECKNOCKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £139k
• PEMBROKESHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £664k
• HERTFORDSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £711k

Side by side with its peers

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