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Registered charity · Buckinghamshire

Progressive Farming Trust Limited

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.progressivefarmingtrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Progressive Farming Trust Limited
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.0m£1.0m
  • 2024£1.3m£1.5m
  • 2022£747k£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.2m£1.2m
  • 2020£2.2m£1.4m

Income trend, 2020 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 26% · Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3 OBJECTS3.1 THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION BY THE PROMOTION, ENCOURAGEMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE OF, AND RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTS INTO AGRICULTURE, ORGANIC FARMING AND TECHNICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AND APPROPRIATE OR INTERMEDIATE TECHNOLOGY WHETHER WITHIN THE UK OR OTHERWISE.3.2 NOTHING IN THE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND/OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008

Grants received

28 grants · £1,452,800 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.

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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.

1.6y median 0.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
8.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
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 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8

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 8Other services 2Professional services 2

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
2024
2025
incomespending£1.0m 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.

4.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 11.8 in 2020

19 from 20 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.
34%
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
281276
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 19TH AUGUST 1980AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 JUL 2019AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 23 AUG 2019
Companies House
Company number 01513190 · Active
Contact on the register
0300 302 0475 · Hello@progressivefarmingtrust.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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