Registered charity · Ipswich

Suffolk Agricultural Association

Suffolk Agricultural Association is a registered charity (number 288595) based in Ipswich, governed by 9 trustees. Latest income £4.3m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as The Suffolk Show (Charity Commission)

9 trustees
Income £4.3m (2025)

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About

What it does: Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where: Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk
Website: www.suffolkshow.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Suffolk Agricultural Association
Registered: 1984

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£4.3m£3.7m
2024£3.5m£3.8m
2023£3.2m£3.8m

Earlier years

2022£3.0m£3.3m
2021£915k£1.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. To promote and encourage the advancement and improvement of agriculture (including forestry, horticulture, food-production, and all allied occupations) whether through the development of skills and techniques or research, and the dissemination of knowledge of such skills, techniques and research, both as to methods of husbandry, the use of science, the use and development of agricultural implements and machinery, the application of land-management, marketing, and conservation, and the development of new agricultural products including renewables.2. In pursuance of the purpose set out in sub-paragraph 1 above to hold regular agricultural shows provided that the Association shall not be obliged to hold a show in any year if the trustees of the Association shall resolve otherwise.

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

4.5y median 4y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Bruce William Kerr since 2019
Karen Sharpe since 2019
Sally Bendall BEM since 2019

23.1y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

Sally Bendall BEM since 2019
Timothy Mark Perry Donsworth since 2023

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 9Economic/community Development/employment 8Environment/conservation/heritage 8General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Education 8Agriculture 7Manufacturing 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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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£3.5m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

36.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 38.1 in 2020

30 from 31 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: 288595
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6TH DECEMBER 1983; AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 3RD DECEMBER 2003 AND 3RD DECEMBER 2007 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 1 OCTOBER 2014 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13 FEB 2017 as amended on 11 Jun 2021 as amended on 13 Nov 2021 as amended on 01 Mar 2022
Companies House: Company number 01775897 · Active
Contact on the register: 01473707110 · enquiries@suffolkshow.co.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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