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Registered charity · Bristol

The Soil Association Limited

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £25m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.soilassociation.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Soil Association Limited
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£25m£25m
  • 2024£22m£22m
  • 2023£19m£21m
Earlier years
  • 2022£16m£18m
  • 2021£23m£16m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 2% · Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING A FULL UNDERSTANDING OF THE VITAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE HEALTH OF THE SOIL, PLANTS, ANIMALS, PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT (B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY CARRYING OUT RESEARCH (AND DISSEMINATING THE RESULTS) INTO AGRICULTURAL AND FORESTRY PRODUCTION METHODS AND THE EFFECTS OF THESE METHODS ON THE QUALITY OF FOOD AND OTHER OUTPUTS ON HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT (C) TO PRESERVE, CONSERVE AND PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THE PRUDENT USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES, INCLUDING BY THE PROMOTION OF ORGANIC AND SUSTAINABLE FARMING TECHNIQUES (D) TO PROMOTE AND ENHANCE HUMAN HEALTH THROUGH PROVIDING INFORMATION AND ADVICE IN RELATION TO HEALTHY EATING AND NUTRITION (E) TO PROMOTE HIGH STANDARDS IN THE CARE AND WELFARE OF FARM ANIMALS TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO AND SUFFERING BY FARM ANIMALS

Grants received

64 grants · £36,222,997 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £31,552,577 (8 grants)
  • Samworth Foundation · £756,490 (4 grants)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £581,314 (7 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £496,205 (8 grants)
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £418,407 (8 grants)

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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.

11 trustees on the board

4y median 5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 11Education/training 11Environment/conservation/heritage 11

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 10Agriculture 7Professional services 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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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£24.9m 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.

0.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

416 from 313 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.
7%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
206862
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 3/5/1946 AS AMENDED 24/1/1961, 22/11/1961, 1/11/1967, 5/11/1968, 18/11/1970, 2/11/1974, 14/10/1978, 21/12/1981, 3/11/1984, 18/11/1989, 7/8/96, 7/10/2000, 12/10/2002 , 4/10/2003 , 1/10/2005 AND 1/11/2012 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON 11/07/2015
Companies House
Company number 00409726 · Active
Contact on the register
03003300100 · sbartolomeu-rook@soilassociation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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