THE FRIENDS OF TREBORTH BOTANIC GARDEN

Registered charity 1126087 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity's volunteers carry out most of the management of the Botanic Garden, including gardening, plant records and woodland management. We show visitors around the Garden and arrange gardening and botanical training courses, walks and garden visits. We arrange concerts and other entertainments at the Garden and hold plants sales.

Objects

3.1 TO PROMOTE, OR ASSIST IN PROMOTING, THE CONSERVATION, MAINTENANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE GROUNDS AND GARDENS AND MONUMENTS THEREIN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES BANGOR BOTANIC GARDEN, TREBORTH, BANGOR, GWYNEDD.3.2 TO ADVANCE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE GROUNDS AND GARDENS, PARTICULARLY BY PROMOTING CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES, ON BEHALF OF MEMBERS OF THE FRIENDS OF TREBORTH BOTANIC GARDEN, SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, ADULT GROUPS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.3.3 TO PRESERVE, ENCOURAGE, SUPPORT AND ENHANCE THE SCIENTIFIC VALUE OF THE LIVING PLANT COLLECTIONS IN THE GROUNDS AND GARDENS, THE HABITAT THEY OFFER FOR INDIGENOUS WILDLIFE AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPORTANCE IN THE AREA.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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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Registered contact address: Gwynedd, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £56,001 were maintained at the end of the year, which the trustees consider to be within their stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £4,880, driven by increased income from plant sales and other activities, while total resources expended were £28,497.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

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 31/07/2022 (received 23/06/2023, 23 days after the 31/05/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06238935 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• GORHAM, John, Dr — director, appointed 13/08/2025on trustee list
• JONES, Tomos Siôn, Dr — director, appointed 13/08/2025on trustee list
• CHIVERS-CROSS, Natalie Jayne — director, appointed 08/11/2024on trustee list
• PARKINSON, John Anthony, Dr — director, appointed 02/02/2024on trustee list
• HOWARD, Anthony John, Dr — director, appointed 20/03/2019not on trustee list
• HOWARD, Anthony John, Dr — secretary, appointed 01/08/2022

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• SARAH LANE EDGARchair
• Dr Anthony John Howard MBE
• Dr John Gorham
• Dr Tomos Sion Jones
• Natalie Jayne Chivers-Cross
• Professor John Anthony Parkinson

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

Operates in: Gwynedd

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TATTON GARDEN SOCIETY.

• TATTON GARDEN SOCIETY income £79k
• BOTANIC GARDENS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £40k
• ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF BRISTOL UNIVERSITY BOTANIC GARDEN income £116k
• FRIENDS OF ABBEY GARDENS income £36k
• THE NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN OF WALES income £5.4m
• THE FORTESCUE GARDEN TRUST income £401k

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