NORFOLK AND NORWICH HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1091429 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE NORFOLK AND NORWICH HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 2002

The society organises four flower and produce shows each year, plus on-line and in person lectures and talks on gardening related subjects with a theme of "Gardening for Everyone". We also organise day trips and holidays to gardens in the UK. We have a network of local affiliated societies and help them with publicity and obtaining speakers and judges for their events. Membership is open to all.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN HORTICULTURE

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: General Charitable Purposes · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Breckland, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted funds of £41,134, which the Trustees consider sufficient to meet planned and unforeseen fluctuations in income and expenditure for the foreseeable future. This amount represents 30 months of total expenditure, indicating a strong liquidity position with current assets exceeding current liabilities by the same margin.

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 5 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2024 (received 24/11/2025, 117 days after the 30/07/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• LEONARD CHARLES FINCHchair
• Gloria Jean Goodley
• LESLEY WEBDALE
• Malcolm Stelfox
• Patricia Mary Loades
• SIMON CHARLES GACHES
• Simon Edward White
• Susan Margaret Cranmer

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NORFOLK AND NORWICH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

• NORFOLK AND NORWICH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY income £44k
• THE ARTS SOCIETY NORTH WEST NORFOLK income £37k
• THE NORFOLK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA income £41k
• NEVERN AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SHOW SOCIETY income £48k
• NORTH DEVON AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY income £325k
• ROYAL NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £5.7m

Side by side with its peers

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