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Registered charity · Cornwall

The Royal Cornwall Agricultural Association

  • 75 trustees
  • Income £3.4m (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
Cornwall
Website
www.royalcornwall.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.4m£3.3m
  • 2024£3.4m£3.0m
  • 2023£3.1m£2.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.8m£2.2m
  • 2021£721k£836k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government contracts 3% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FORESTRY, CONSERVATION AND INDUSTRY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT (IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL) AND TO IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THEM IN ALL THEIR BRANCHES AND IN ALL TRADES, CRAFTS AND PROFESSIONS WITH THEM IN EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE MANNER.TO ADVANCE SCIENCE, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN CONNECTION WITH AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FORESTRY, CONSERVATION AND INDUSTRY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; AND TO PROMOTE THE IMPROVEMENT OF ALL FORMS OF LIVESTOCK AND THE PREVENTION AND ERADICATION OF DISEASE IN ALL FORMS OF LIVESTOCK.

Grants received

2 grants · £11,254 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 · £11,254 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £4,8932024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £6,3602023-04-01
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.

5.1y median 3y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure
7.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (59)

Portfolio (16)

10
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 75Animals 70Environment/conservation/heritage 69General Charitable Purposes 2Other Charitable Purposes 2Recreation 2Religious Activities 2The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2

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

Finance 5Agriculture 4Education 4

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£3.4m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

25.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 69.8 in 2020

20 from 18 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
250312
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 30 DECEMBER 1926 AND GENERAL LAWS OF THE ASSOCIATION DATED 21 JANUARY 1966 AS AMENDED 6 MARCH 2000 AND 10 MARCH 2005
Contact on the register
01208812183 · info@royalcornwall.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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