SHEFFIELD BOTANICAL GARDENS TRUST

Registered charity 1162566 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To improve and refurbish the Sheffield Botanical Gardens, its collections and its buildings for the education and benefit of the inhabitants of Sheffield and its surrounding areas.

Objects

TO IMPROVE AND REFURBISH THE SHEFFIELD BOTANICAL GARDENS,ITS COLLECTIONS AND ITS BUILDINGS FOR THE EDUCATION AND BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF SHEFFIELD AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS.

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £1,427,173 as of 31 March 2026, following a surplus for the year of £196,266 which included significant net gains on investments. The charity holds no restricted funds at year-end and maintains a strong cash position with £359,293 at bank, while noting there are no material uncertainties about its ability to continue.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• MILES RICHARD STEVENSONchair
• Harriet Flew
• JANE MARGARET QUIBELL
• Karen Horsefield
• Paul Stephen Lewis Whittaker
• Peter David Vaughan Jones
• Simon Edward Olpin

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHEFFIELD MUSEUMS TRUST.

• SHEFFIELD MUSEUMS TRUST income £5.5m
• THE BATSFORD FOUNDATION income £2.2m
• SHEFFIELD TOWN TRUST income £420k
• THE FAIRHAVEN GARDEN TRUST income £633k
• THE NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN OF WALES income £5.4m
• TRUST FUNDS HELD IN CONNEXION WITH FLOWERY FIELD CHURCH, HYDE, CHESHIRE income £35k

Side by side with its peers

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