Registered charity · Devon

Farms for City Children Limited

11 trustees
Income £2.7m (2025)

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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does: Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Animals, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where: Throughout England And Wales
Website: www.farmsforcitychildren.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Farms for City Children Limited
Registered: 1974

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£2.7m£2.8m
2024£2.6m£2.5m
2023£2.6m£2.4m

Earlier years

2022£2.0m£2.2m
2021£1.3m£1.2m

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF BOYS AND GIRLS FROM URBAN AREAS BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF SUITABLE EDUCATIONAL STUDY CENTRES IN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

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.

11 trustees on the board

3.4y median 2y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Richard John Ash since 2018

12.5y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

Jayne Copley since 2024

company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 11Education/training 11Animals 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Agriculture 11Retail and trade 3Education 2

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.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£2.7m 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.

3.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

66 from 22 in 2021

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: 325120
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12 JUL 1974AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 DEC 1996AS AMENDED BY ORDER DATED 26 JUN 2001AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 17 APR 2019 as amended on 13 Jul 2021
Companies House: Company number 01177239 · Active
Contact on the register: 01392276381 · admin@farmsforcitychildren.org
Edition: Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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