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Registered charity · Thatcham

The Newbury and District Agricultural Society

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £900k (2024)

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
Education/training, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
West Berkshire, Reading, Slough, Hampshire and more
Website
www.newburyshowground.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Newbury & District Agricultural Society
Registered
1991

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£900k£886k
  • 2023£1.0m£911k
  • 2022£308k£249k
Earlier years
  • 2021£344k£247k
  • 2020£216k£411k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2022: Government contracts 17%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1)TO PROMOTE ADVANCE AND IMPROVE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FORESTRY AND RURAL CRAFTS AND SKILLS IN ALL THEIR BRANCHES AND FORMS AND TO ENCOURAGE INTEREST, SKILL AND INDUSTRY IN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FORESTRY, RURAL CRAFTS AND SKILLS AND ALL TRADES, CRAFTS, BUSINESSES, AND PROFESSIONS CONNECTED THEREWITH. (2)TO PROMOTE ADVANCE AND IMPROVE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS CONNECTED WITH AGRICULTURE,HORTICULTURE,FORESTRY AND RURAL CRAFTS AND SKILLS. (3)TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE NEED TO PRESERVE THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE WILD LIFE THEREOF FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT INCLUDING BY THE HOLDING OF SHOWS FOR THE EXHIBITION OF LIVESTOCK, FARM PRODUCE, HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE, MACHINERY, IMPLEMENTS, ANIMAL FEED STUFFS, FERTILISERS, SEEDS AND OTHER THINGS APPERTAINING TO AGRICULTURE, FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF INTEREST, SKILL AND INDUSTRY IN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FORESTRY, RURAL CRAFTS AND SKILLS AND AL TRADES, CRAFTS, BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS CONNECTED THEREWITH AND FOR THE DEMONSTRATION OF TECHNIQUES, CRAFTS, SKILLS, ADVANCES AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES CONNECTED WITH AGRICULTURE AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE COUNTRYSIDE AND IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH SHOWS TO JUDGE AND AWARD PRIZES

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.

7 trustees on the board

3.7y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 7Education/training 7Environment/conservation/heritage 7

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 9Finance 2Agriculture 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£900k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

8.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 8.0 in 2020

4 from 4 in 2023
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
1003898
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 18TH. JULY 1991 AS AMENDED 30 JANUARY 2002 AND 6 DECEMBER 2004 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 28 JANUARY 2009. AS AMENDED ON 06 JUL 2023AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19 JUN 2025
Companies House
Company number 02630481 · Active
Contact on the register
01635247111 · nadas@nadas.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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