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Registered charity · Hereford

The Hereford Cattle Society

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £683k (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
Animals
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.herefordcattle.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Hereford Cattle Society
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£683k£702k
  • 2024£710k£787k
  • 2023£747k£774k
Earlier years
  • 2022£731k£715k
  • 2021£723k£642k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO MAINTAIN UNIMPAIRED THE PURITY OF AND IMPROVE THE BREED OF CATTLE KNOWN AS HEREFORDS, AND TO PROMOTE IMPARTIALLY THE BREEDING OF ALL THE VARIOUS TRIBES, FAMILIES AND STRAIN OF SUCH CATTLE. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION).

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.

16 trustees on the board

1.9y median 0y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (15)

Portfolio (1)

12
company-linked trustees

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

Animals 16Environment/conservation/heritage 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 13Other services 1Property 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£683k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

26.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 31.1 in 2021

4 from 4 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
217428
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES DATED THE 5TH MARCH 1878 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 24TH NOVEMBER 1970 AND 4TH NOVEMBER 1988, 17TH NOVEMBER 1989, 1ST JANUARY 1996 AND 23 JANUARY 2001, 21ST APRIL 2005
Companies House
Company number 00012100 · Active
Contact on the register
01432272057 · postroom@herefordcattle.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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