The charity
The Trustee Company
Since October 2020 the Company’s charitable assets and administration have been the responsibility of a separate trust company, set up specifically for the purpose.
- Transferred
- 1 October 2020
- Company number
- 12778973
- Directors
- Five
Why it exists
Charity and Company, kept distinct
From 1 October 2020 the Worshipful Company of Farmers’ charitable assets and administration became the responsibility of a new trust company, the transfer timed to coincide with the charity’s existing financial year end.
The move followed advice from the Company’s lawyers, Stone King, and work undertaken on behalf of the Court by the Charity Advisory Group chaired by Past Master John Thorpe. It ensures the Company complies fully with the Charity Commission guidance issued during 2019, which requires a distinct separation between an organisation’s corporate and its charitable activities.
The objectives of the WCF Charitable Fund are not changed in any way by this separation. The new trustee company continues to fund the education programmes that have been a hallmark of the Company for many years, along with its other charitable activities.
Who they are
The Directors
In their capacity as Trustees, the Directors control and manage the charity’s assets — the cash reserves, the investments and the Livery property.
- Chairman, Past Master Assistant
- J A Sayers
- Assistant
- Mrs B J Littler
- Independent Director
- R J L Jones
- Liveryman
- E W Allen
- Liveryman
- T J Russ
Applying
Two routes to charitable funding
Applications may be made either through one of the Company’s committees, as they always have been, or now directly to the Trust Company through its own grant application process.
The grant application form
Apply directly to the Trust Company using the WCF grant application form.
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