BOTANIC GARDENS CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1098834 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BGCI, BOTANIC GARDENS CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, PLANTS FOR THE PLANET

BGCI was founded in 1987 to link botanic gardens as a co-operating global network for effective plant conservation. BGCI aims to do this in four ways byleading and advocacy,leading innovative and strategic projects achieving outcomes in plant conservation policy, practice and education,building plant conservation capacity in botanic gardens and broader society,and by providing funding.

Objects

(I) TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF PLANT SPECIES OF THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING THE PROMOTION OF THE CULTIVATION AND MAINTENANCE OF SUCH PLANTS BY BOTANIC GARDENS THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN RELATION TO SUCH PLANTS AND THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH CONCERNING SUCH PLANTS AND THEIR CONSERVATION PROVIDED THAT ALL THE USEFUL RESULTS SUCH RESEARCH SHALL BE PUBLISHED

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £362,827, which is below the trustees' stated target of £500,000. To address this shortfall, the board agreed to liquidate investment holdings in 2025. The trustees and auditors confirm that the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Investment
• 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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carmel Helene Mbizvo
• Dr CHARLOTTE ANNE GREZO
• Dr Harry David Cooper
• Dr Maricela Rodriguez-Acosta
• Dr Nicole Cavender
• Dr Nikolaus Franz Xavier Schoenenberger
• Dr PETER WYSE JACKSON
• Dr Ren Hai
• Grainne Brankin Goar
• HRH Princess Basma Fatima bint Ali bin Nayef
• Jonathan Ilan Drori
• Karen Fawcett
• Martin Gibson · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Argentina · Armenia · Australia · Austria · Belgium · Bhutan · Bolivia · Brazil · Bulgaria · Cambridgeshire · Chile · China

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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