THE FARMERS' COMPANY CHARITABLE FUND — grant history

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Latest income

£318k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£179k

Accounts grants total

£269k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: Applications for grants and awards are assessed on their merits, with details provided on the Grants page. For course sponsorship, applicants must contact Scott Norris or Duncan Couper after exhausting other funding avenues. The Henman Nuffield Scholarship applications should be made to the Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust.

Summarised from www.farmerslivery.org.uk · farmerslivery.org.uk/courses/sponsorship-and-funding/ · farmerslivery.org.uk/grants-awards/ on 15/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Nuffield Scholarship	—	£16k
new	Advanced Course in Agricultural Business	—	£11k
up	Grants to Institutions	£62k	£105k
up	Grants to Individuals	£9k	£15k
not listed	Nuffield Scholarships	£15k	—
not listed	Advanced Course in Agricultural Business Management	£3k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
Grants to Institutions	FY2025	£105k	Expenditure on charitable activities
Challenge of Rural Leadership Course	FY2025	£24k	Expenditure on charitable activities
Nuffield Scholarship	FY2025	£16k	Expenditure on charitable activities
Grants to Individuals	FY2025	£15k	Expenditure on charitable activities
Advanced Course in Agricultural Business	FY2025	£11k	Expenditure on charitable activities
Cranfield Fees	FY2025	£8k	Expenditure on charitable activities
Grants to Institutions	FY2024	£62k	Includes Surrey Docks Farm, Farming and Countryside Education and rural support initiatives
Challenge of Rural Leadership Course	FY2024	£19k	Funded through the Henman Fund
Nuffield Scholarships	FY2024	£15k	In association with Savills (UK) Ltd, funded through the Nuffield Award from the Henman Fund
Grants to individuals	FY2024	£9k	Young Farmer awards and other individual grants
Cranfield fees	FY2024	£8k	Cranfield Programmes
Advanced Course in Agricultural Business Management	FY2024	£3k	Funded through the Parsons Fund and by specific donations
Grants to Institutions	FY2023	£38k	Includes donations to Surrey Docks Farm (£5,000), Farming and Countryside Education, Rural Support Initiatives, and agricultural research (£5,000).
Challenge of Rural Leadership Course	FY2023	£27k	The Challenge of Rural Leadership Course (CRLC)
Nuffield Scholarships	FY2023	£13k	A Nuffield Scholarship was awarded for 2022-23... in association with Savills (UK) Ltd.
Advanced Course in Agricultural Business	FY2023	£11k	The Advanced Course in Agricultural Business Management (ACABM)
Grants to individuals	FY2023	£8k	Prizes to individuals at universities and colleges; Henman Travel Awards.
Challenge of Rural Leadership Course	FY2022	£21k	Funding for the 25th Course
Advanced Course in Agricultural Business Management	FY2022	£16k	Funding for the 70th Course
Nuffield Scholarship	FY2022	£13k	Award for 2021-22 in association with Savills (UK) Ltd
Cranfield Programmes	FY2022	£8k	Cranfield fees
Surrey Docks Farm	FY2022	£5k	Grant in response to Covid
Agricultural Research	FY2022	£5k	Donation towards research

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 178843 vs reference 269459 (33.6% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.