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KENT BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION

Company no. 00238630 · PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
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KENT BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION is an active 97-year-old company. One to note: has traded under 1 previous name. On the plus side, accounts filed and up to date.

Risk indicatorsNo adverse signals found
Has traded under 1 previous name
Active on the Companies House register
Accounts filed and up to date
No outstanding charges or mortgages registered
Established — 97+ years on the register

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Company details
Established 10+ yearsName changed
StatusActive
Company number00238630
TypePRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Incorporated11 Apr 1929 · 97 yrs
Registered office23 King's Road, Tonbridge, TN9 2HB
Nature of business85590 - Other education n.e.c.
Next accounts due30 Jun 2027
Confirmation statement due10 Jul 2027
Previous namesTHE KENT BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION (20/01/2022)

Contact

Contact from the Charity Commission (official public register).

Charity Commission

Charity number
222946
Charity status
Registered
Registered charity since
21 Jan 1964
Charity type
Charitable company
Latest income
£128,016 · year to 30 Sep 2025
Latest expenditure
£118,846

What KENT BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION does

Beekeeping and education of the public in bees and pollination

Charitable objects and activities as declared by the charity to the Charity Commission for England and Wales.

Charity income & expenditure

Financial year endingIncomeExpenditureNet
30 Sep 2025 £128,016 £118,846 £9,170
30 Sep 2024 £127,783 £124,608 £3,175
30 Sep 2023 £120,909 £120,757 £152
30 Sep 2022 £114,478 £109,737 £4,741
30 Sep 2021 £101,098 £94,805 £6,293

Figures as filed in the charity's annual returns to the Charity Commission — last 5 reported years. Net is income less expenditure; a negative figure means the charity spent more than it received that year.

Trustees (24)

Anthony Trinick
Trustee · appointed 16 Feb 2022
Christopher Cornthwaite
Trustee · appointed 24 Jun 2024
Clifford Hayward
Trustee · appointed 16 Nov 2021
DAVID MAXWELL REA
Trustee
David Cockburn
Trustee · appointed 11 Sep 2021
David Stephen Keepence
Trustee · appointed 4 Feb 2025
Dez Leach
Trustee · appointed 16 Nov 2025
Ernest Keith UNDERWOOD
Trustee · appointed 21 Nov 2018
Ian Burr
Trustee · appointed 29 Jan 2026
Ivan Whitley
Trustee · appointed 1 Feb 2025
Jacqueline McCann
Trustee · appointed 20 Nov 2025
James Frederick Knights
Trustee · appointed 5 Mar 2023
Keith Masters
Trustee · appointed 5 Feb 2026
MR BOB SMITH
Trustee
Martin Hemming
Trustee · appointed 20 Nov 2020
Michael Lindsay
Trustee · appointed 14 Dec 2022

+ 8 more trustees

Trustees as recorded on the Charity Commission register. For a charitable company the trustees are normally also its Companies House directors, so this list and the Directors & officers list below should broadly agree — a large discrepancy is worth asking about.

Filed accounts — year to 30 Sep 2025

FigureAmount
Fixed assets £170,602
Current assets £130,483
Cash at bank £124,261
Debtors £768
Creditors £4,423
Net current assets £126,060
Total assets less current liabilities £296,662
Net assets £296,662
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Figures taken directly from the accounts KENT BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION filed at Companies House for the financial year ending 30 Sep 2025, read from the machine-readable (iXBRL) tags in the filing itself. Smaller companies may file abridged accounts, so not every figure above will be present for every business. Always check the full filing before relying on these numbers.

Property & land holdingsPremium

PropertyTenureArea
Land lying to the North East Marchurst, Hildenborough Road, Shipbourne, Tonbridge Freehold Tonbridge And Malling, Kent

Freehold and leasehold titles registered to this company in the HM Land Registry Commercial & Corporate Ownership Data. This covers registered land in England and Wales only, and reflects the register at the date of the extract — recent transactions may not appear.

Directors & officers

CLARKSON, Steven
Secretary · appointed 15 Feb 2020
BURR, Ian Douglas
Director · appointed 29 Jan 2026 · British
CLARKSON, Steven William
Director · appointed 11 Sep 2021 · British
CLIFTON-HOLT, Shirley Anne
Director · appointed 8 Nov 2023 · English
COBLEY, Peter David
Director · appointed 21 May 2024 · British
COCKBURN, David Hugh
Director · appointed 11 Sep 2021 · British
CORNTHWAITE, Christopher John
Director · appointed 24 Jun 2024 · British
ELLIOTT, Michelle Deborah
Director · appointed 13 Jun 2016 · British
HAYWARD, Clifford John
Director · appointed 16 Nov 2021 · British
HEMMING, Martin Jonathan
Director · appointed 20 Nov 2020 · British
KEEPENCE, David Stephen
Director · appointed 4 Feb 2025 · British
KNIGHTS, James Frederick
Director · appointed 5 Mar 2023 · English

Ownership & control (PSC)

Statement filed — no individual PSC named
Persons with significant control statement
Filing status
AccountsUp to date
Last accounts made up to30 Sep 2025
Next accounts due30 Jun 2027
Confirmation statementUp to date
Last statement26 Jun 2026
Next statement due10 Jul 2027
Accounts typeSmall company

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