BIOVERSITY INTERNATIONAL (UK)

Registered charity 1131854 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Bioversity International UK funds innovative cutting-edge scientific research to tackle the biggest challenges the world is facing at the nexus of agriculture, environment and nutrition, supporting in particular millions of smallholder farmers, 50% of whom are women, who produce a third of the world's food. Our research partners are the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT.

Objects

3.1 TO ADVANCE RESEARCH AND APPLY THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH INTO THE CONSERVATION AND USE OF AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY FOR THE PURPOSES OF PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN AREAS AROUND THE WORLD WHERE POVERTY AND HUNGER ARE WIDESPREAD BY:3.1.1 THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO THE PRUDENT USE OF VARIED AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES AND TECHNIQUES APPROPRIATE TO THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT.3.1.2 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF HEALTH AND LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES BY ENCOURAGING SUCH COMMUNITIES TO FARM APPROPRIATELY TO THEIR MEANS AND RAISING NUTRITION LEVELS; AND3.1.3 TO PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION IN THE FIELD OF AGRICULTURE,WHERE SUCH SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £60,133, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £29,372 from £89,504 the previous year. Per the trustees' report, the charity remains operationally stable but emphasizes the importance of securing adequate working capital and continued support to sustain its activities. The trustees confirmed they have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06724958

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.

• DOIMI DE FRANKOPAN, Christina Ingrid Stephanie — director, appointed 08/11/2013not on trustee list
• MALLOCH-BROWN, Trish, Lady — director, appointed 20/12/2010on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• LADY TRISH MALLOCH-BROWNchair
• CHRISTINA DOIMI DE FRANKOPAN
• Stephanie Speck

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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