The Benevolent Fund of the National Association of Group Secretaries of the Farmers' Unions of England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland

The benevolent fund of the National Association of Group Secretaries of the Farmers Unions of England and Wales, Scotland and Ulster exists to offer financial assistance to existing and retired Group Secretaries who contribute or have contributed to the fund. Assistance is also offered to the dependents of the subscriber. The aim is to offer financial assistance to those in financial difficulty on

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales
• Scotland
• Northern Ireland

Area of benefit in its governing document: National

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £18,151 and spent £18,225.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 118%, from £8,309 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £18,151 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 100% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 December 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

7 trustees run the charity.

• Helen Charlotte KirbyChairAppointed 8 March 2018
• Mark John LeyAppointed 13 June 2024
• Miss A J GemmellAppointed 6 March 2014
• Rhys Mathew DaviesAppointed 8 March 2018
• Richard Keith CampbellAppointed 25 May 2023
• Robert BeatyAppointed 9 March 2017
• Scott Adam CarruthersAppointed 25 May 2023

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

208145

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

24 July 1962

Governing document

RULES ADOPTED 8 APRIL 1960 BY ANUUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NFU AS AMENDED ON 21 MARCH 1980 AND 15 OCTOBER 1991

Council area of its contact address

Ceredigion

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Ceredigion Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Ceredigion's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Ceredigion Penfro