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Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £4.0m (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk
Website
www.rnaa.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£4.0m£3.5m
  • 2023£3.0m£3.0m
  • 2022£2.9m£2.7m
Earlier years
  • 2021£4.4m£1.2m
  • 2020£532k£1.2m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO PROMOTE IMPROVEMENT IN THE BREEDING OF LIVESTOCK AND PLANTS, IN THE INVENTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINES AND IMPLEMENTS, IN THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF SKILLS IN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FORESTRY, PISCICULTURS, RURAL CRAFTS AND ALLIED SYSTEMS OF HUSBANDRY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALL SYSTEMS , TECHNIQUES, METHODS OR PROCESSES CONNECTED THEREWITH;(B)TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION, INCLUDING IN RELATION TO FOOD, FARMING AND THE COUNTRYSIDE; AND (C)TO ADVANCE AND ENCOURAGE THE PROTECTION AND SAFEGUARDING OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Grants received

4 grants · £739,900 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 for researchers

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

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

9
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 9General Charitable Purposes 9Animals 8Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Other services 13Professional services 4Manufacturing 3

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£4.0m 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.

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

20 from 15 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
289581
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18/05/1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/01/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/04/2014
Companies House
Company number 01817702 · Active
Contact on the register
01603 748931 · info@rnaa.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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