The Oxford Farming Conference

Analysis

The Oxford Farming Conference is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lincolnshire. It was registered in April 1986, 40 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, animals, environment/conservation/heritage and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under animals. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02005012). It says it makes grants to organisations and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending February 2025, The Oxford Farming Conference reported income of £476k and spending of £477k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from February 2021 to February 2025, income grew from £118k to £476k (+304%), an average of +42% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to February 2022, when income rose by 105%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 2,161 England and Wales charities whose main cause is animals and that reported income, The Oxford Farming Conference sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Wythall Animal Sanctuary (£474k), The Fox Project (Southern Wildlife Ambulance Network) (£477k) and Sea Watch Foundation, the Cetacean Monitoring Unit (£472k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.