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Registered charity (CIO) · Knutsford

Cheshire Agricultural Society CIO

  • 46 trustees
  • Income £1.2m (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, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Cheshire East, Cheshire West & Chester
Website
www.cheshirecountyshow.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.2m£1.4m
  • 2024£1.1m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.0m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.1m£1.2m
  • 2021£538k£680k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 0%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ENCOURAGEMENT (BY THE HOLDING OF SHOWS OR OTHERWISE) OF AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISE AND THE AGRICULTURAL AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC. THE PROMOTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE BREEDING, REARING AND HEALTH OF LIVESTOCK FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLICTHE IMPROVEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE, THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE INVENTION OR IMPROVEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND THE PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN RELATION TO THE IMPORTANCE OF FOOD PRODUCTION AND ITS RELATIONSHIPS TO THE LOCAL FARMING COMMUNITY AND RURAL ECONOMYTHE ADVANCEMENT, ENCOURAGEMENT AND SAFEGUARDING OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Grants received

3 grants · £69,199 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 · £69,199 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £13,3932024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £17,4052023-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £38,4012023-04-01
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.

46 trustees on the board

10.2y median 12y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (44)

Portfolio (2)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 46Education/training 46Environment/conservation/heritage 46

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 3Other services 3Arts and leisure 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£1.1m 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.

11.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 39.0 in 2020

5 from 3 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
1151672
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Association Registered 17 Apr 2013
Contact on the register
01565650200 · info@royalcheshireshow.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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