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Registered charity · Oxford

The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £5.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.rabi.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.4m£8.9m
  • 2024£5.8m£8.0m
  • 2023£5.2m£6.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.8m£9.9m
  • 2021£6.3m£7.9m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CORPORATION SHALL BE THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF NEED, HARDSHIP ORDISTRESS IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT TO SUCH PERSONS WHOARE, OR HAVE BEEN, EMPLOYED OR ENGAGED IN THE FARMING INDUSTRY, OR THE DEPENDANTS OFSUCH PERSONS

Board analysis for researchers

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.

10 trustees on the board

4y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (3)

4
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 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10Accommodation/housing 9Other 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.

Agriculture 2Arts and leisure 2Education 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£5.8m 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.

3.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 70.2 in 2020

61 from 143 in 2020
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
208858
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER 1935, AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTERS 1955, 1958 AND 1984, SCHEME 5 FEBRUARY 1999, ORDERS IN COUNCIL14 SEPTEMBER 2001, 12 FEBRUARY 2002 AND 15 MAY 2003.AS AMENDED BY ORDER DATED 16 DEC 2020
Contact on the register
01865724931 · info@rabi.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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