THE NATIONAL VEGETABLE SOCIETY

Registered charity 1088979 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

NVS activities include the promotion of vegetable growing by home kitchen gardeners using the internet, regional and local lectures and by means of vegetable exhibitions and competitions. We put on demonstrations at various exhibitions and events held throughout the UK, some in conjunction with the RHS and Royal Agricultural Society of England.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CULTIVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF VEGETABLESB) TO ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE OF AN FURTHER PUBLIC INTEREST IN VEGETABLES BY THE PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION, BY EXHIBITION, BY STIMULATING RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENT AND BY AWARDING PRIZES OPEN TO PUBLIC COMPETITION.

Area of benefit: NO DEFINED

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the society's membership remains steady with over 2,100 subscriptions and that Gift Aid claims were processed successfully. Per the trustees' report, an in-depth financial review was conducted in February 2026 to aid planning, and the society continues to receive generous support from sponsors and partners.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Raymond Higginschair
• Adrian Read
• Andrew Jones
• Betty Garbutt
• CECILIA JEAN FORRESTER
• Faisal Nasser Ali
• Fiona Clare Simpson
• Ian Simpson
• Kelvin Victor Mason
• Michael Shipley
• Norman Dickinson
• Owain Roberts
• SANDRA HALL

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).