The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The Farming Community Network

Registered charity 1095919 Registered since 2003

Operates: Throughout England And Wales

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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

4.7y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

17.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (3)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 7Education/training 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Tech and media 7Agriculture 6Education 5

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.8m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

17.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 18.3 in 2021

29 from 21 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.fcn.org.uk
Emailmail@fcn.org.uk
Phone01788510866
AddressBragborough Hall Business Centre, Welton Road, Braunston, DAVENTRY, Northamptonshire, NN11 7JG

Finances

£1,794,750 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£786,921£601,007
2022£966,279£767,676
2023£962,607£913,484
2024£1,355,802£1,009,262
2025£1,794,750£1,392,725

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

Other Defined GroupsThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Advocacy/advice/informationSponsors Or Undertakes Research

Charitable objects

3.1 The relief of hardship and distress, amongst persons living and working in the agricultural, horticultural and related communities, by the provision of pastoral and practical support underpinned by a Christian ethos ("the Objects").3.2 Nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02/05/2002NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 17/02/2011AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22/02/2013NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 17 JUL 2019 as amended on 08 May 2020 as amended on 27 May 2020 as amended on 26 May 2021 as amended on 23 May 2023 as amended on 22 Jul 2024

Trustees (11)

7trustees
55median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The Farming Community Network · 04429778 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 02/05/2002

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (5)

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