The Rutland Agricultural Society

Registered charity 1186008 · since 2019rutlandshowground.com·Rutland·Updated 31 October 2026

Key takeaways

The Society's stated support is sponsoring places on BASIS-accredited Sustainable Land Management courses, and it will fund up to 10 places.
Its eligibility is for people involved in farming who live within 15 miles of the Rutland Showground, so a small nonprofit's own request would not match those terms, though it could direct eligible farmers to the scheme.
Those people should send an application to the Livestock Secretary, as no general application process is published.
The annual report gives no readable grants figure, and no typical sizes, deadlines or competition levels are published, so a grant writer should not assume a sum or timing beyond what is stated.

Overview

The Rutland Agricultural Society is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1186008).

The Rutland Agricultural Society exists to improve agriculture for the public benefit through the demonstration, exhibition and showing of livestock, machinery, crafts, products, methods and processes connected with agriculture and agricultural education. It was formed and has held an annual show ever since, with only a handful of interruptions. Its one listed programme funds places on BASIS Accredited Sustainable Land Management Courses provided by The Allerton Trust, with up to 10 places.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The Society’s stated purpose is to promote agriculture and the professions, trades and crafts connected with it. It says it gives prizes and grants to further those objectives. Its objects describe demonstrations, exhibitions and shows as ways to advance agricultural education. Its published education support sponsors places on BASIS-accredited Sustainable Land Management courses for people involved in farming who live within a 15-mile radius of the Rutland Showground. More broadly, it aims to showcase best practice and create educational opportunities, and to help young people learn about farming and the outdoors. Its annual show and events at the showground combine agricultural promotion with public-facing education.

Themes

Agricultural education

How to apply

For sponsorship of a place on the Sustainable Land Management course, a person involved in farming and living within the stated radius should send an application to the Livestock Secretary.

Who can apply:

BASIS Accredited Sustainable Land Management Courses sponsorship: Anyone who can show they are involved in farming and live within a 15 mile radius of the Rutland Showground LE5 7TW

Where they fund

Registered area of operation (Charity Commission)

Rutland

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to The Rutland Agricultural Society.

Suffolk Agricultural AssociationNo public processGave £1,000 Three Counties Agricultural SocietyNo public processGave £49,300 Newbury & District Agricultural SocietyNo public process Edenbridge & Oxted Agricultural ShowNo public processGave £6,000 The Royal Bath & West SocietyFixed deadlines Burwarton & District Agricultural SocietyFixed deadlinesGave £3,479 South of England Agricultural SocietyFixed deadlinesGave £11,000 Newark and Nottinghamshire Agricultural SocietyNo public processGave £5,000 Kent County Agricultural SocietyInvitation only The Lincolnshire Agricultural SocietyInvitation onlyGave £6,626

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 December 2020	£3,887,501	£252,517	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2020
year to 31 December 2021	£107,050	£266,484	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2021
year to 31 December 2022	£322,642	£380,507	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2022
year to 31 December 2023	£405,627	£422,927	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2023
year to 31 December 2024	£417,216	£521,759	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2024

— No grants figure for that year.

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.