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Registered charity · London

The Royal Countryside Fund

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £4.1m (2025)
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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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.royalcountrysidefund.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Royal Countryside Fund
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.1m£3.9m
  • 2024£2.5m£2.8m
  • 2023£1.9m£2.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.4m£2.1m
  • 2021£1.6m£1.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 37%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

2.1 THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT IN FARMING AND/OR RURAL AREAS;2.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO FARMING AND/OR RURAL AREAS;2.3 THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN FARMING AND/OR RURAL AREAS;2.4 THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH IN FARMING AND/OR RURAL AREAS;2.5 THE PROMOTION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND INPARTICULAR CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION THROUGHOUT THE UK BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:(A) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP;(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONGUNEMPLOYED PEOPLE, AND PROVIDING UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WITH WORK EXPERIENCE;AND(C) THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO PROMOTE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INFARMING AND/OR RURAL AREAS.

Grants received

8 grants · £5,418,191 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

  • Rothschild Foundation £500,0002025-07-18
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £360,0002024-05-15
  • Community Foundation in Wales £1,5002022-11-03
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £731,7552022-08-02
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £1,651,5012022-08-02

Grants given

126 grants · £2,364,762 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 recipients

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.

3.8y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

19.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

9
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 10Environment/conservation/heritage 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9Animals 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Other services 15Professional services 10Manufacturing 9

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£4.1m latest income
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.

1.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 10.6 in 2021

17 from 11 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
1136077
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30 APRIL 2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 JUN 2017 as amended on 31 Aug 2023 as amended on 21 Aug 2023
Companies House
Company number 07240359 · Active
Contact on the register
07990371158 · info@countrysidefund.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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