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Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 12
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

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.
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Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • 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
  • The Board is predominantly male
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£542£512£30£11£190£1904.5100
31/12/22£490£470£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£570£682£-112£13£140£1402.5100
31/12/20£667£573£93£11£252£2435.1110
31/12/19*£834£785£49£45£159£1592.4130
31/12/18£652£621£30£52£110£1102.1110
31/12/17£516£495£21£54£80£801.980
31/12/16£352£343£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£284£244£40n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14£287£277£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 2.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 44%
Liabilities/Income: 27%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 4.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 1.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 11 years

www.innovationforagriculture.org.uk

info@i4agri.org

02476 692470

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Animals
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Grant-making foundations
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 supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
Esmee Fairbairn£180,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£45,000
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 friendly farming
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£45,000 23/10/2023
Application of funding to the Garfield Weston Foundation towards the core costs of running IfA farm environmental sustainability programmes.
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
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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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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 33-68
  • DAVID GALBRAITH Appointed: 2017 Occupation: Farmer
  • DR LISA MORGANS Appointed: 2024 Occupation: Senior Lecturer
  • FLAVIAN OBIERO Appointed: 2024 Occupation: Farmer
  • PAUL JAMES WESTAWAY (Chair) Appointed: 2015 Occupation: English Farmer
  • PHILIP GREADY Appointed: 2023 Occupation: Executive Director Rural & Projects
  • ROBERT NICHOLAS FOORD DREWETT Appointed: 2013 Occupation: Solicitor
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
  • ROLAND TAPLIN Appointed: 2024 Occupation: Business Advisor
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
10 returns made; AR19: 17 days late,
Main office

The RASE 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.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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