ALPINE GARDEN SOCIETY

Registered charity 207478 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4735490 · Wikipedia · also known as AGS

To promote an interest in all aspects of alpine plants, their cultivation in rock gardens and plant conservation in natural habitats. We are a membership organisation, publish a quarterly Journal for members, operate a seed exchange, make awards available for horticultural study, operate botanical tours for members to see plants in their natural habitats and publish alpine plant information.

Objects

TO FURTHER THE KNOWLEDGE OF ALPINE PLANTS; TO GATHER AND DISSEMINATE PARTICULARS OF THEIR CULTIVATION AND CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THEY GROW IN NATURE; TO HOLD SOWS OF ALPINE PLANTS AND GIVE ADVICE CONCERNING THEM; TO ARRANGE TOURS AND VISITS; TO ORGANISE MEETINGS; AND GENERALLY TO UNDERTAKE IN ACTIVITIES THAT SHALL BE CONSISTENT WITH THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE SOCIETY IS CONSTITUTED.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Registered contact address: Wychavon, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net surplus of £59,948, bringing total reserves to £1,988,951. The trustees report that free reserves of £1,082,860 are maintained at a level equivalent to between six and twelve months of expenditure, satisfying their stated reserves policy. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kendall Wadley LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

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.

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 31/08/2023 (received 29/08/2024, 60 days after the 30/06/2024 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

• Trading subsidiary: A.G.S. PUBLICATIONS LIMITED Companies House 01470279 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: AGS EXPEDITIONS LIMITED Companies House 02141423

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Robert Amoschair
• Anne Vale
• David Keith Haselgrove
• Georgina Crowhurst
• Mathew Jeffery
• PROFESSOR JOHN GALLOWAY
• SALLY PETITT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Freeth
• beth marshall
• steven vale

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

Operates in: Denmark · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SWINDON ALLOTMENTS AND LEISURE GARDENS ASSOCIATION.

• SWINDON ALLOTMENTS AND LEISURE GARDENS ASSOCIATION income £34k
• DUNTON COMMUNITY GARDEN GROUP income £26k
• THE GARDENS TRUST income £337k
• ASHLEY GREEN AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £74k
• PENISTONE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LTD income £226k
• TATTON GARDEN SOCIETY income £79k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.