Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: -7

Support Score: 12

Volatile income: -3
Future income +5
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1
Only 4 Trustees: -1
Narrow trustee age band: -2
All male board: -3

Grant maker support: +12

Overall GiG Score: 7

INNOVATION FOR AGRICULTURE

Innovation for Agriculture connects farmers with farming research. They work with leading agricultural researchers, businesses, landowners, and farmers to develop the knowledge and technologies that will make modern farming more sustainable, resilient, and productive. Through practical and interactive workshops, farm walks, and on-farm demonstrations, they help farmers to put this knowledge into practice.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
There are only 4 trustees
The Board is completely male
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently

Established: 10 years

www.innovationforagriculture.org.uk

info@i4agri.org

02476 692470

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff
31/12/22		£490	£470	£20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/12/21		£570	£682	£-112	£13	£140	£140	2.5	10
31/12/20		£667	£573	£93	£11	£252	£243	5.1	11
31/12/19	*	£834	£785	£49	£45	£159	£159	2.4	13
31/12/18		£652	£621	£30	£52	£110	£110	2.1	11
31/12/17		£516	£495	£21	£54	£80	£80	1.9	8
31/12/16		£352	£343	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/15		£284	£244	£40	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0
31/12/14		£287	£277	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Animals
Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Other Charitable Purposes

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Esmee Fairbairn	£180,000
Dulverton Trust	£40,000
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	£12,826

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to INNOVATION FOR AGRICULTURE
£180,000	06/12/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs to enable Innovation for Agriculture to continue to deliver impactful knowledge exchange programmes supporting UK farmers in their journey to Nature & Climate ....more Towards unrestricted core costs to enable Innovation for Agriculture to continue to deliver impactful knowledge exchange programmes supporting UK farmers in their journey to Nature & Climate friendly farming
Dulverton Trust - Knowledge Exchange Programme
£40,000	19/10/2022	Knowledge Exchange Programme
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - A EUROPEAN-WIDE NETWORK OF PILOT FARMERS IMPLEMENTING AND DEMONSTRATING CLIMATE SMART SOLUTIONS FOR A CARBON NEUTRAL EUROPE
£12,826	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10052749
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£200,000	28/03/2018	Sharing Knowledge and Core Costs
Dulverton Trust - Core Costs
£60,000	15/02/2017	Core Costs
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Innovation for Agriculture
£255,000	14/09/2016 36	Towards core costs supporting IfA's work on improving farming practice including reducing antibiotics use in farmed animals, soil health and freshwater quality.
Dulverton Trust - Towards core costs
£30,000	21/10/2015	Towards core costs

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 54-67

DAVID GALBRAITH Appointed: 2017 Occupation: Farmer

PAUL JAMES WESTAWAY (Chair) Appointed: 2015 Occupation: English Farmer, Other trusteeship: ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND,

PHILIP GREADY Appointed: 2023 Occupation: Executive Director Rural & Projects, Other trusteeship: ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND,

ROBERT NICHOLAS FOORD DREWETT Appointed: 2013 Occupation: Solicitor, Other trusteeships: GRATEFUL SOCIETY, ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND, WELLS CATHEDRAL PRESERVATION TRUST, THE LANGFORD TRUST FOR ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELFARE, THE ROYAL BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY, THE HILBORNE FOUNDATION, High Sheriff of Somerset Charitable Trust, ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF THE COMMONWEALTH,

Robert is a Partner in Womble Bond Dickinson Solicitors and specialises in property law. He is also Trustee of a number of diverse charities, including the Royal Bath & West of England Society (of which he is Chairman), Innovation for Agriculture, the Royal Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth, and the Langford Trust for Animal Health and....more

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/01/2014, number: 1155563
Registered at Companies House on 11/12/2013, number: 08811248

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Filing Record

9 returns made; AR19: 17 days late,

Main office

Arthur Rank Centre
Stoneleigh Park
KENILWORTH
Warwickshire
CV8 2LZ

Objectives

4.1THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS(OBJECTS)ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION,FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT,OF AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE,INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMIT:A)THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION AND EFFICIENT FOOD PRODUCTION;B)THE CONSERVATION,PROTECTION,RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT,SOIL HEALTH AND EROSION,GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS,DIFFUSE POLLUTION AND BIO-DIVERSITY;C)THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND INVESTMENT IN NEW KNOWLEDGE AND DISSEMINATION OF BEST FARMING PRACTICES;AND D)THE IMPROVEMENT OF FARM ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELFARE.

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