THE NORTH OF ENGLAND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 702017 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity's object and principal activity is the promotion and development of the science, art and practice of horticulture by the promotion of shows and events.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND DEVELOP THE SCIENCE ART AND PRACTICE OF HORTICULTURE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE CONDITIONS OBTAINING IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND BY THE PROMOTION OF SHOWS AND EVENTS.(FOR FULL DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF CONSTITUTION)

Area of benefit: NORTH OF ENGLAND

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £15,828 for the year ended 31 December 2025, primarily due to the trading subsidiary offsetting its profit with brought-forward trading losses, resulting in no gift payable to the charity. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £353,258, which is below the stated policy target of three months' operating costs, though the trustees note they are more comfortable with a higher figure due to the cyclical nature of their work.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by DSC Accountants Limited. 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.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02419964
• Trading subsidiary: HARROGATE FLOWER SHOW LIMITED Companies House 02485663 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Matthew Wilson — President (source)
• Christopher S H Smith — Chair (source)
• Caroline Bayliss — Vice-Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• GREGG, Christine Elizabeth — director, appointed 09/03/2022on trustee list
• GARGAN, Katherine Helena — director, appointed 09/03/2022on trustee list
• COMPTON, Lucinda Jane Astell — director, appointed 08/03/2017on trustee list
• BARKER, David Roy — director, appointed 09/03/2016on trustee list
• BECKWITH, Rae — director, appointed 09/03/2016on trustee list
• I'ANSON, Michael John — director, appointed 11/03/2015on trustee list
• HOPPS, Sarah Anne — director, appointed 11/03/2015on trustee list
• MOWBRAY, Penelope Lucy, Lady — director, appointed 16/03/2011on trustee list
• GRANT, Pamela Anne — director, appointed 19/03/2008on trustee list
• BAYLISS, Caroline Jane — director, appointed 19/03/2008on trustee list
• BEARDALL, David — director, appointed 23/03/1994on trustee list
• SMITH, Christopher Stephen Hattersley — directoron trustee list
• ROBINSON, Jane — secretary, appointed 21/11/2019

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

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 (99% 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: 75.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN HATTERSLEY SMITHchair
• CAROLINE JANE BAYLISS
• Christine Gregg
• DAVID BARKER
• DAVID BEARDALL
• Dianne Kilburn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katherine Gargan · trustee of 1 other charity
• LADY PENELOPE LUCY MOWBRAY
• Lucinda Compton
• MARGARET ANN DABELL
• MICHAEL JOHN I'ANSON
• PAMELA ANNE GRANT · trustee of 1 other charity
• RAE BECKWITH
• SARAH ANNE HOPPS
• SUSAN MARGARET BROWN

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• NORTH DEVON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £325k
• THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £2.5m
• INNOVATION FOR AGRICULTURE income £602k
• THE DENBIGHSHIRE AND FLINTSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £297k
• ASSOCIATION OF SHOW AND AGRICULTURAL ORGANISATIONS income £160k
• THE NORTH OF ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £70.5m

Side by side with its peers

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