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Frome Cheese & Grain Limited

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Somerset
Website
www.cheeseandgrain.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Frome Cheese & Grain Limited
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.6m
  • 2024£1.5m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.2m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£579k£495k
  • 2021£357k£362k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TO RUN A COMMUNITY HALL AND TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF FROME TOGETHER WITH THE PARISHES OF BECKINGTON, BERKLEY, BUCKLAND, DINHAM, COLEFORD, FROME SELWOOD, GREAT ELM, HEMINGTON, KIMERSDON, LEIGH ON MENDIP, LULLINGTON, MELLS, NORTON ST PHILIP, NUNNEY RODE, TELLISHFORD, TRUDOXHILL, WANSTROW, WHATLEY AND WITHAM FRIARY ('THE AREA OF BENEFIT') WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AGE, DISABILITY, NATIONALITY, RACE OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS;B) TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT URBAN OR RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION (AND IN PARTICULAR THE AREA OF BENEFIT) BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:I) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE OR THOSE WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES.II) THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT OR PROVISION OF PUBLIC AMENITIESIII) THE PROVISION OF SPACE AND FACILITIES THAT WILL CREATE EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOCAL PEOPLE.IV) THE PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS OR SITES OF HISTORIC OR ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE.V) TO PROMOTE PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE PREVENTION OF CRIME.

Grants received

8 grants · £375,465 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

Most recent

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.

14 trustees on the board

3.9y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

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.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 14Education/training 14Amateur Sport 13Disability 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.

Property 11Arts and leisure 3Education 2

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£1.7m 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.

0.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

37 from 19 in 2022
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
1108074
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 16 APRIL 2003
Companies House
Company number 04736751 · Active
Contact on the register
01373455420 · OFFICE@CHEESEANDGRAIN.COM
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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