THE CORNWALL GARDEN SOCIETY

Registered charity 1094859 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The original aim was for garden owners in the county to display and compete with each others gardens and plants. Since then its activities have diversified to include a programme of free lectures, the publication of a journal and arranging a wide range of garden visits, outings, walks and talks and other activities and there is a grant programme for horticultural students.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ARE(1) THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE SCIENCE, ART AND PRACTICE OF HORTICULTURE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES(2) THE PROMOTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION IN GOOD GARDENING PRINCIPLES AND IN THE NATIONAL HERITAGE OF GARDENS IN CORNWALL(3) TO PROMOTE, CONSERVE, PROTECT AND STUDY THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, HISTORIC GARDENS AND DESIGNED LANDSCAPES IN CORNWALL.

Area of benefit: CORNWALL

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 charity made an operating loss for the year ended May 2025, with total resources expended exceeding incoming resources. However, unrestricted reserves increased significantly to £106,501 following a merger with the Cornwall Gardens Trust, which the trustees consider an adequate level to ensure stability and security.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Lloyd Fox
• Charles Williams
• Jeffery Richard Rowe
• Jonathon Rawson Croggon
• Judith Vosper Hancock
• Martin Petherick
• Michael Anthony Nelhams
• PENELOPE ANNE POLGLASE
• Richard Stone
• Sir Robert Owen

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

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