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Registered charity · Dorset

Gillingham and Shaftesbury Agricultural Society

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £463k (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
Education/training, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset, Wiltshire
Website
www.gillinghamandshaftesburyshow.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Gillingham & Shaftesbury Agricultural Society
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£463k£436k
  • 2024£467k£546k
  • 2023£464k£523k
Earlier years
  • 2022£411k£398k
  • 2021£385k£286k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FORESTRY, RURAL CRAFTS AND SKILLS AND CONSERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BYA) HOLDING DEMONSTRATIONS OF MODERN AGRICULTURAL METHODS AND PROCESSES;B) HOLDING SHOWS FOR THE EXHIBITION OF LIVESTOCK, POULTRY, FARM AND HORTICULTURAL PRODUCE AND FORESTRY, AND FOR THE DEMONSTRATION OF AGRICULTURAL METHODS AND PROCESSES, RURAL CRAFTS AND SKILLS, MACHINERY, VEHICLES DOMESTIC GOODS, IMPLEMENTS TOOLS AND APPLIANCES, ANIMAL FEED STUFFS, FERTILISERS SEEDS AND OTHER ITEMS APPERTAINING OR ANCILLARY TO AGRICULTURE.TO ADVANCE SCIENCE, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN CONNECTION WITH AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FORESTRY, RURAL CRAFTS AND SKILLS AND CONSERVATIONTO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE RURAL ECONOMY AND AGRICULTURE IN WAYS WHICH ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND WHICH FOSTER PUBLIC CO-OPERATION AND GOODWILLTO PROMOTE THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK AND THE PREVENTION AND ERADICATION OF DISEASES IN ALL FORMS OF LIVESTOCK

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.

8 trustees on the board

3.6y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

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 8Animals 7Environment/conservation/heritage 7Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Recreation 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.

Arts and leisure 10Agriculture 2Other services 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£467k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1115942
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 20 NOVEMBER 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 6 AUGUST 2006
Companies House
Company number 04971254 · Active
Contact on the register
01747823955 · info@gillinghamandshaftesburyshow.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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