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Registered charity · Cumbria

The Westmorland County Agricultural Society Limited

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £883k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Animals
Where
Cumbria
Website
www.westmorlandshow.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Westmorland County Agricultural Society LTD
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£883k£1.0m
  • 2024£997k£1.0m
  • 2023£927k£1.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£852k£946k
  • 2021£838k£727k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND IMPROVE AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, ALLIED INDUSTRIES, RURAL CRAFTS, THE BREEDING OF LIVESTOCK, FORESTRY AND CONSERVATION AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE OLD COUNTY OF WESTMORLAND AND THOSE PARTS OF ADJOINING COUNTIES WHICH ARE WITHIN A FIFTY FIVE MILE RADIUS OF LANE FARM, CROOKLANDS, MILNTHORPE, CUMBRIA. B) TO PROMOTE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES OF THE SOCIETY SHALL THINK FIT

Grants received

2 grants · £12,110 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £12,110 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £6,3872024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £5,7242024-04-01
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.

12 trustees on the board

5.3y median 3.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

12
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 12General Charitable Purposes 12Arts/culture/heritage/science 11Recreation 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.

Agriculture 13Education 1Professional services 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£997k latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

48.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 62.8 in 2020

8 from 4 in 2021
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
1067224
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM OF ARTICLES AND ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15 JANUARY 1996
Companies House
Company number 03146325 · Active
Contact on the register
01539567804 · manager@westmorland.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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