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Kent County Agricultural Society

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £2.7m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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.

3.9y median 4y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 9Animals 8Environment/conservation/heritage 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 9Agriculture 1Manufacturing 1

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.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.4m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

16.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 30.6 in 2020

19 from 21 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

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
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