Registered charity · Maidstone
Kent County Agricultural Society
- 9 trustees
- Income £2.7m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Claire Elizabeth SeymourTrustee · since 2022
- Janis Ann LoraineTrustee · since 2020
- Jonathan William BoothTrustee · since 2023
- Kristina BouldenTrustee · since 2025
- Matthew Richard CullenTrustee · since 2023
- Neil LakelandTrustee · since 2021
- Nicholas Martin BolasTrustee · since 2022
- Sarah Kathleen GainesTrustee · since 2021
- The Honorable Fiennes Alexander Wykeham M CornwallisTrustee · since 2022
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
- Where
- Kent
- Website
- www.kentshowground.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Kent County Agricultural Society
- Registered
- 1990
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2.7m£2.7m
- 2024£2.4m£2.6m
- 2023£2.6m£2.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£2.2m£2.1m
- 2021£1.1m£1.1m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
A) THE IMPROVEMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, HORTICULTURE, ALLIED INDUSTRIES RURAL CRAFTS AND THE BREEDING OF LIVESTOCK B) THE DEMONSTRATION OF IMPROVED METHODS AND PROCESSES CONNECTED WITH THE ABOVE C) THE HOLDING OF AN ANNUAL SHOW FOR THE EXHIBITION OF LIVESTOCK, FARM PRODUCE, HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE, MACHINERY, IMPLEMENTS, TOOLS, APPLIANCES, UTENSILS, ANIMAL FEEDING STUFFS, FERTILIZERS, SEEDS AND OTHER THINGS CONNECTED WITH OR APPERTAINING TO AGRICULTURE D) THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL EDUCATION RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL WORK BY PUBLICATIONS GRANTS OR OTHER MEANS E) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE COMPANY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
9 trustees on the board
- Claire Elizabeth Seymour since 2022
- Janis Ann Loraine since 2020
- Jonathan William Booth since 2023
- Kristina Boulden since 2025
- Matthew Richard Cullen since 2023
- Neil Lakeland since 2021
- Nicholas Martin Bolas since 2022
- Sarah Kathleen Gaines since 2021
- The Honorable Fiennes Alexander Wykeham M Cornwallis since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Janis Ann Loraine since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Janis Ann Loraine since 2020
- Jonathan William Booth since 2023
- Kristina Boulden since 2025
- Matthew Richard Cullen since 2023
- Neil Lakeland since 2021
- Nicholas Martin Bolas since 2022
- Sarah Kathleen Gaines since 2021
- The Honorable Fiennes Alexander Wykeham M Cornwallis since 2022
Portfolio (1)
- Claire Elizabeth Seymour since 2022
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
16.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 30.6 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1001191
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/11/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/08/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/02/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/10/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13 SEP 2023
- Companies House
- Company number 02556508 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01622630975 · info@kentshowground.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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