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Description
- Building public awareness about the benefits of organic food and farming through: education and public information; and public events programme.- Training and support for producers on organic practice.- Regional development programme to link producers to consumers at a local level.- Ensure the integrity of organic food by the continued development of organic standards.
Also known as
- Lord Bradford Research Fund
- The Soil Association Limited
- Soil Association
- The Soil Association
- The Soil Association Limited
- Soil Association Limited(The)
- The Soil Association Ltd
- Soil Association, The
CCEW Charity number
Company number
Registered
Postcode
BS1 6AD
Website
Domain
soilassociation.org
Latest income
£18,548,000 (on )
This organisation record is based on data from Registered charities in England and Wales published by Charity Commission for England and Wales.
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- soilassociation.org
- Charity Commission England and Wales
- CharityBase
- Giving is Great
- Companies House
- Opencorporates
- Twitter: @soilassociation
- Wikipedia: Soil Association
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Areas of operation in the UK
Registered Office in the UK
This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 4 active records and 0 inactive records, from 4 data sources.
What is an organisation identifier?
An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.
Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.
Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.
Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.
GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 206862 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.
This organisation has been classified using different categories:
International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)
ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.
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Eco-farming and forestry
E14
UK Charity Activity Tags
These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.
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Associations
AS -
Economic and community development
EC» Economic developmentEC102 -
Economic and community development
EC» Rural and farming areasEC105 -
Education
ED -
Education
ED» TrainingED300 -
Social welfare
SW» FoodSW300
Theme (CCEW)
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Education/training
102 -
Animals
111 -
Environment/conservation/heritage
112
Beneficiaries (CCEW)
-
Other Defined Groups
206 -
The General Public/mankind
207
Activities (CCEW)
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Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
308 -
Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
309
Scale of operation
- National
| Year ending | Income (£) | Spending (£) |
|---|---|---|
| 1962-09-22 |
Registered as a charity |
|
| 2004-03-31 | 3,943,546 | 3,931,830 |
| 2005-03-31 | 4,155,057 | 3,991,301 |
| 2006-03-31 | 5,456,080 | 5,045,941 |
| 2007-03-31 | 4,534,478 | 5,084,687 |
| 2008-03-31 | 14,992,328 | 12,806,588 |
| 2009-03-31 | 13,685,757 | 12,009,108 |
| 2010-03-31 | 11,843,072 | 12,118,897 |
| 2011-03-31 | 11,416,302 | 11,389,736 |
| 2012-03-31 | 9,865,701 | 9,926,913 |
| 2013-03-31 | 8,922,361 | 8,369,792 |
| 2014-03-31 | 11,349,179 | 10,423,032 |
| 2015-03-31 | 14,624,002 | 13,643,096 |
| 2016-03-31 | 12,576,698 | 14,480,170 |
| 2017-03-31 | 16,824,100 | 12,945,118 |
| 2018-03-31 | 14,008,499 | 14,063,094 |
| 2019-03-31 | 17,356,000 | 15,589,000 |
| 2020-03-31 | 15,004,000 | 16,530,000 |
| 2021-03-31 | 23,385,000 | 16,058,000 |
| 2022-03-31 | 16,299,000 | 17,731,000 |
| 2023-03-31 | 18,548,000 | 20,760,000 |
Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Employees | 348 | 343 |
| Employees paid more than £60,000 | 6 | 8 |
| Volunteers | - | 15 |
| Trustees | 12 |
Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
Statement of financial activities for year ended .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2023 £m |
2022
£m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Incoming resources | ||
| Donations and other voluntary income | 1.8 | 1.4 |
| Legacies | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| Endowments | - | - |
| Donations and legacies | 2.2 | 1.7 |
| Income from charitable activities | 15.3 | 14.2 |
| Income from other trading activities | 1.1 | 0.4 |
| Income from investments | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Other income | - | 0.0 |
| Total | 18.5 | 16.3 |
| Expenditure | ||
| Investment management | - | - |
| Other spending on raising funds | 0.9 | 0.7 |
| Spending on raising funds | 0.9 | 0.7 |
| Grants to institutions | - | - |
| Other charitable activities | 18.9 | 16.9 |
| Charitable activities | 18.9 | 16.9 |
| Other spending | 1.0 | 0.1 |
| Total | 20.8 | 17.7 |
| Net income / (expenditure) | (2.2) | (1.4) |
Balance sheet at .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2023 £m |
2022
£m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Fixed assets | ||
| Tangible and intangible assets | 9.6 | 9.7 |
| Investment assets | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| 9.7 | 9.8 | |
| Current assets | ||
| Current investment assets | - | - |
| Cash | 5.3 | 7.9 |
| Other current assets | 5.5 | 4.8 |
| 10.8 | 12.7 | |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due within one year | (6.3) | (6.0) |
| Net current assets | 4.5 | 6.8 |
| Total assets less current liabilities | 14.2 | 16.6 |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due after one year | (1.5) | (1.6) |
| Net assets | 12.7 | 15.0 |
| Funds | ||
| Endowment funds | - | - |
| Restricted funds | 9.1 | 10.4 |
| Unrestricted funds | 3.7 | 4.5 |
| 12.7 | 15.0 | |
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Contracts with government | ||
| Income from government contracts | 902,069 | 873,386 |
| Government contracts as % of total income | 4.9% | 5.4% |
| Number of government contracts | 17 | 21 |
| Government grants | ||
| Income from government grants | 956,415 | 531,873 |
| Government grants as % of total income | 5.2% | 3.3% |
| Number of government grants | 14 | 6 |
Received 72 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.
View this organisation's grants on GrantNav.
| Date | Funder | Amount awarded | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The National Lottery Heritage Fund | £79,905 | #FIRNS2 Governance mechanisms for whole-farm and farm cluster natural capital project implementation | ||
|
The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Facility for Investment Ready Nature in Scotland |
£50,000 | Grant to Soil Association Limited(The) | ||
|
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Main Grant |
£350,000
3 years |
Grant to The Soil Association | ||
|
Oxfordshire Community Foundation
Undisclosed |
£250 | Donor Request | ||
|
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Main Grant |
£60,000
1 month |
Grant to The Soil Association | ||
|
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Main Grant |
£21,018
1 month |
Grant to The Soil Association | ||
|
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Future Farming Resilience Fund- Interim Phase |
£37,882 | Soil Association - Farm Resilience Fund - Scale Up | ||
| Samworth Foundation |
£330,000
3 years |
Environment
Aug 2022 to Aug 2025 |
||
|
Garfield Weston Foundation
Environment |
£34,000 | Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award | ||
|
Greenwood Place
Golden |
£25,000 | Grant to Soil Association |
Data source
Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.
- Cabinet Office (26 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Cumbria Community Foundation (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- John Ellerman Foundation (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (11 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Greenwood Place (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation (previously Guy's and St Thomas' Charity) (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Garfield Weston Foundation (3 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The National Lottery Heritage Fund (7 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Northern Rock Foundation (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Oxfordshire Community Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Samworth Foundation (4 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Thirty Percy Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The National Lottery Community Fund (8 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Friends Provident Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
National Lottery grants data comes from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport who publish the National Lottery grants database.
This data is used under the Open Government Licence. Grants that are also published under 360Giving have been removed to ensure there is not duplication.
- The National Lottery (1 grant) | Licence
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