GREAT COMP

Registered charity 1189847 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Great Comp provides an environment and garden for the enjoyment and education of the public. It aims to enhance the study and enjoyment of plants and improve the wellbeing of all those who visit us and volunteer to enhance the visiting experience.

Objects

TO BE USED AS AND FOR A GARDEN FOR THE EDUCATION AND ENJOYMENT OF THE PUBLIC AND BY THE GROWTH AND DISPLAY OF TREES AND PLANTS FOR THE PURPOSES OF FURTHERING THE STUDY AND SCIENCE OF BOTANY IMPROVING THE METHOD AND PRACTICE OF HORTICULTURE AND INCREASING THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE SAME.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tonbridge and Malling, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased by £17,674 for the year, resulting in a net expenditure position, although this included a one-off £44,514 expenditure on a National Lottery Heritage Fund application. Per the trustees' report, excluding this application cost, the charity would have reported a surplus of £26,840. Total unrestricted reserves stood at £2,277,804, with total funds of £3,081,387 at year-end.

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 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Great Comp (matched by registered charity number).

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW GARLAND
• Amanda Cotttrell O.B.E.
• Amicia de Moubray · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Hobart
• Dr David Chesover · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel Charles Britten · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Robertson
• Susan Patricia Chandler

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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