PLANT HERITAGE

Registered charity 1004009 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5848929 · Wikipedia · also known as NCCPG, THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE CONSERVATION OF PLANTS AND GARDENS · also registered in Scotland as SC041785 (OSCR)

Plant Heritage is the accreditation body for the National Plant Collection scheme, responsible for cultivated plant conservation. It is also responsible for the Threatened Plants Project, the only research project investigating the availability of cultivated plants in the UK. Plant Heritage was formerly known as The National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens (NCCPG).

Objects

(I)FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NATION AND THE PUBLIC AS A WHOLE TO ENCOURAGE THE CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED OR RARE PLANTS OF SPECIES HYBRIDS AND CULTIVARS WHICH CAN BR GROWN IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS WHICH HAVE CHARACTERISTICS WORTHY OF PRESERVATION IN THE INTERESTS OF PUBLIC EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR HORTICULTURE BOTANY AND OTHER NATURAL SCIENCES MEDICINE AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES TO ENSURE THE AVAILIBILITY OF SUCH PLANTS FOR ANY PURPOSE BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. (II)TO CONDUCT CARRY OUT AND ENCOURAGE RESEARCH INTO RARE OR ENDANGERED PLANTS OR THEIR ENVIRONMENTS AND THE COLLECTION AND RECORDING OF SUCH PLANTS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS AND ALL INFORMATION RELATING TO THEM AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AND TO ESTABLISH ONE OR MORE SOURCES PROVIDING PLANTS FOR EXHIBITS AND FOR PROPAGATING MATERIAL. (III)TO ENCOURAGE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN HORTICULTURAL SKILLS PARTICULARLY IN THE FIELD OF PLANT AND GARDEN CONSERVATION AND TO ENCOURAGE THE CULTIVATION IN GARDENS OF RARE OR ENDANGERED PLANTS. (IV)TO ENCOURAGE THE INTRODUCTION INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE PROPAGATION OF RARE PLANTS NOT REPRESENTED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a planned deficit of £71,085 for the year ended October 2025, which was met by drawing down on reserves to fund strategic growth plans. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £515,335, which is significantly above the stated policy target of £265,802, providing financial security despite the current year's loss.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02222953

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Plant Heritage (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Garden Scheme — “As part of our partnership, any Plant Heritage National Collection holder who opens their garden with the NGS in England and Wales can nomin…” (source page)
• Shanly Homes — “With special thanks to our Gold Corporate Members Shanly Homes” (source page)
• Arboricultural Association — “Bronze Corporate Members supporting Plant Heritage Arboricultural Association” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• JAMES, Jacob George Ashley — director, appointed 01/09/2026on trustee list
• HORSLEY, Nicola Jane, Prof — director, appointed 01/09/2026not on trustee list
• WILSON, Philip Charles — director, appointed 01/05/2026on trustee list
• JAHROMI, Jasmine — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• MATHERS, David Richard — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• FARRER, Claire, Dr — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• FLATMAN, Sally — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• HUMPHREYS, John — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• NEWTON, Roderick, Sir — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• WEIGHT, Della — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• KAPOOR, Kavita — director, appointed 14/09/2022on trustee list
• MORGAN, Gareth Peter — director, appointed 10/07/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~10.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir Roderick Newtonchair
• David Mathers · trustee of 2 other charities
• Della Weight
• Dr Claire Farrer
• Gareth Morgan
• Jacob James
• Jasmine Jahromi
• John Humphreys · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kavita Kapoor
• Philip Wilson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Prof Nicola Horsley CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sally Flatman

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PLANTNETWORK.

• PLANTNETWORK income £32k
• THE ENGLISH HERITAGE TRUST income £155.2m
• THE HARDY PLANT SOCIETY income £142k
• THE PLANTATION GARDEN PRESERVATION TRUST income £86k
• PLANTLIFE INTERNATIONAL-THE WILD PLANT CONSERVATION CHARITY income £8.1m
• HERITAGE CONCERN FOUNDATION income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.