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Registered charity · Harrogate

Yorkshire Agricultural Society

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.yas.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Yorkshire Agricultural Society
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£13m
  • 2024£14m£13m
  • 2023£13m£13m
Earlier years
  • 2022£12m£11m
  • 2021£10m£9.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government contracts under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE AGRICULTURE, RURAL AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES THROUGHOUT THE NORTH OF ENGLAND INCLUDING CHAMPIONING THE ROLE OF FARMERS AS PROVIDERS OF HIGH QUALITY PRODUCE AND ENCOURAGING CONSUMERS TO CHOOSE HEALTHY AND LOCAL PRODUCE; TO ADVANCE AND ENCOURAGE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND GREATER UNDERSTANDING AND EMPATHY WITH FARMING AND THE COUNTRYSIDE AMONGST THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND PARTICULARLY CHILDREN; TO ADVANCE AND ENCOURAGE THE PROTECTION AND SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT; TO HOLD IN PURSUANCE OF ITS MAIN OBJECTIVES AN ANNUAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW; FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SEE FIT.

Grants received

4 grants · £18,582 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 Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £10,896
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £5,256 (2 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £2,430

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £4722024-07-04
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £4,7842022-05-12
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £10,8962022-04-01
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £2,4302022-04-01
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.

7 trustees on the board

3.6y median 4y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
15.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
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 7General Charitable Purposes 7Education/training 6The 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.

Other services 11Property 4Agriculture 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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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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£12.8m 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.

12.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 14.3 in 2021

109 from 81 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
513238
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23 SEPTEMBER 1982 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 31 MARCH 1992, 23 MARCH 1994, 4 MAY 1995, 9 OCTOBER 2002 AND 12 MAY 2006 AND BY RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 8 MAY 2014
Companies House
Company number 01666751 · Active
Contact on the register
01423541000 · info@yas.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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