The Royal Agricultural Society of England

Registered charity 209961 · since 1963rase.org.uk·England·Updated 30 October 2026

Key takeaways

Your work fits if it supports the Society's charitable objectives: improving agriculture, forestry, horticulture and the husbandry of livestock and land, agricultural and environmental education, research and experimental work, or rural religious activities and values.
No grant range, typical grant size or annual grants total is published, so the reader should set a request size from their own costed project rather than from the funder.
Neither the annual report nor its website sets out an application process, so the sensible first step is to use the contact given there to ask whether a proposal would be considered.
Its stated test is only whether a grant is valid against its objectives, and neither its annual report nor its website states any exclusions, so organisations outside those themes should first check that fit before applying.

Overview

The Royal Agricultural Society of England is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 209961).

The Royal Agricultural Society of England is an independent charity and membership organisation that exists to promote and improve the science, technology, art and practice of agriculture, forestry, horticulture and kindred activities. It supports the progression of knowledge and innovation within the agricultural community, including through agricultural and environmental education, research and development. It makes grants to organisations or individuals where these are considered valid in support of its charitable objectives.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The Society says it makes grants to organisations or individuals where it considers them valid in support of its charitable objectives. Those objectives cover improving the science, technology, art and practice of agriculture, forestry, horticulture and related activities, and the husbandry of livestock and land. They also include agricultural and environmental education, research, development and experimental work, alongside promoting religious activities and values among rural communities. The Society describes its wider work as supporting knowledge and innovation in the agricultural community and helping farmers access information for informed farm-business decisions. Its stated approach is to make grants where it considers them valid against these objectives.

Themes

Agriculture, forestry and horticulture
Livestock and land husbandry
Agricultural and environmental education
Agricultural and environmental research
Rural religious activities and values

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or its website. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Application success factors

What the charity says:

The Society considers grants valid when they support its charitable objectives.

Where they fund

Registered area of operation (Charity Commission)

England

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to The Royal Agricultural Society of England.

Burwarton & District Agricultural SocietyFixed deadlinesGave £3,479 The Royal Bath & West SocietyFixed deadlines South of England Agricultural SocietyFixed deadlinesGave £11,000 Newark and Nottinghamshire Agricultural SocietyNo public processGave £5,000 Three Counties Agricultural SocietyNo public processGave £49,300 Kent County Agricultural SocietyInvitation only Yorkshire Agricultural SocietyFixed deadlinesGave £36,237 Henocq Law TrustNo public processGave £760k Aurum Kaleidoscope FoundationNo public processGave £10.5M Alresford and District Agricultural SocietyNo public processGave £40,000

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 December 2020	£623,000	£372,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2020
year to 31 December 2021	£363,438	£321,229	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2021
year to 31 December 2022	£504,481	£585,308	£75,000	Accounts for year to 31 December 2022
year to 31 December 2023	£947,216	£882,597	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2023
year to 31 December 2024	£1,875,765	£2,052,778	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2024

Grants paid, year to 31 December 2022: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.