Registered charity · Haywards Heath

The South of England Agricultural Society

9 trustees
Income £2.5m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: Education/training
Where: East Sussex, Hampshire, Kent, West Sussex and more
Website: www.seas.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: The South of England Agricultural Society
Registered: 1965

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£2.5m£2.5m
2024£2.4m£2.4m
2023£2.3m£2.2m

Earlier years

2022£2.3m£2.0m
2021£1.9m£1.5m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) TO PROMOTE INDUSTRY IN GENERAL AND AGRICULTURE IN PARTICULAR. B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PARTICULARLY EDUCATION IN AGRICULTURE AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES AND IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, IN HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY.

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.

9 trustees on the board

4.4y median 3y

average tenure

10y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.5y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (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 9

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 1Tech and media 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.

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

incomespending£2.4m 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.

3.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.9 in 2020

15 from 12 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: 227033
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 29TH DECEMBER 1966 AND 24TH JANUARY 1967 AND 24TH MARCH 2005 AND 27TH MARCH 2008.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 MAR 2016
Companies House: Company number 00527571 · Active
Contact on the register: 01444892700 · info@seas.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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