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Registered charity · Peterborough

Processors and Growers Research Organisation

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.pgro.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Processors & Growers Research Organisation
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£1.4m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£932k
  • 2021£1.3m£1.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, UNDERTAKE AND ENCOURAGE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION TO IMPROVE THE GROWING, HARVESTING, PROCESSING AND MARKETING OF LEGUMES, AND OTHER CROPS, AND, IN PARTICULAR, TO CARRY OUT SUCH RESEARCH AND EDUCATION AT AND FROM THE RESEARCH STATION, THORNHAUGH, NEAR PETERBOROUGH, AND ELSEWHERE.

Grants received

7 grants · £139,765 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 Science, Innovation and Technology · £90,301 (4 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £49,463 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £3,6162023-07-10
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £39,9962022-11-30
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £22,2592022-11-30
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £24,4302022-06-20
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £13,6172022-04-01
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.

5y median 3.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Environment/conservation/heritage 12

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

Professional services 12Agriculture 2Education 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
2023
2024
incomespending£1.4m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 21.9 in 2020

18 from 19 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
284077
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07/06/1956AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/05/1974AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/11/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 13/04/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/06/2014NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 14 NOV 2017 as amended on 16 Jun 2026
Companies House
Company number 00567232 · Active
Contact on the register
01780782858 · info@pgro.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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