About Us

The Soil Association is the UK’s leading membership charity campaigning for healthy, humane and sustainable food, farming and land use.

The Soil Association is registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, charity number 206862 and with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, charity number SCO39168.

The Charity has a wholly owned subsidiary Soil Association Certification Limited, the UK’s largest organic certification body.  This is run as a not for profit company that as well as helping to deliver parts of the Charity’s strategy also generates financial returns that are ploughed back into the Charity’s wider work. Find out more about Soil Association Certification. 

The Charity helped to establish and has ongoing involvement in the Soil Association Land Trust.  The Land Trust is a charity in its own right, charity number 1121011, established to acquire and maintain farmland sustainably and to connect the public with land stewardship.

• What We Do

  We are the only UK charity working across a spectrum of human health, the environment and animal welfare

  Find out how we're making a difference

• Transforming the Way we Eat

  The Soil Association works to transform our food culture in schools, hospitals, care homes, and on the high street.

• Transforming the Way we Farm

  The Soil Association runs schemes to secure the future of farming and lobbies government to make changes to harmful policies.

Impact and Finances

Read our 2019 Work & Impact Report for an overview of our impact this year.

Our Annual Report and Accounts is available to view too, which details how we raised and spent money over the last year.

See our Annual Reports