The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Suffolk Agricultural Association

Registered charity 288595 Registered since 1984

Operates: Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk

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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
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

23y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

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 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.suffolkshow.co.uk
Emailenquiries@suffolkshow.co.uk
Phone01473707110
AddressTrinity Park, Felixstowe Road, Ipswich, IP3 8UH

Finances

£4,251,030 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£914,738£1,390,394
2022£2,986,121£3,306,490
2023£3,170,608£3,789,609
2024£3,531,625£3,825,735
2025£4,251,030£3,737,359

What it does

What

Education/trainingEnvironment/conservation/heritageEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Charities Or Voluntary BodiesThe General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To OrganisationsProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Advocacy/advice/information

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.

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

Trustees (9)

9trustees
56median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Suffolk Agricultural Association · 01775897 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 06/12/1983

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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