THE SPRINGFIELDS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered charity 253736 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPRINGFIELDS FESTIVAL GARDENS

To act as a horticultural society and to promote the study and practice of horticulture in all its branches and in particular, the cultivation and development of all varieties of flowers grown from bulbs and corms.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF HORTICULTURE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES AND IN PARTICULAR THE CULTIVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALL VARIETIES OF FLOWERS GROWN FROM BULBS OR CORMS. (FOR FULL DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION).

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.

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Registered contact address: South Holland, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a small net surplus of £1,430 for the year, with total funds increasing slightly to £1,454,410. The majority of these funds are held in restricted reserves or tied up in non-liquid tangible assets like the gardens, leaving only £84,350 in potentially free reserves. The accounts state that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern 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 Sumer Audit Co Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00876136

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.

• TAYLOR, Adam Edwin John, The Hon — director, appointed 25/03/2015on trustee list
• HARMAN, Russell — director, appointed 25/03/2015on trustee list
• LAMB, Susan Ann — director, appointed 25/03/2015on trustee list
• JANSEN, Adrian Marcus — director, appointed 21/08/2008on trustee list
• WALKERS, John Willibroad — director, appointed 21/08/2008on trustee list
• REYNOLDS, David Eric — director, appointed 06/10/1997on trustee list
• RUYSEN, Peter Anthony — director, appointed 13/03/1995on trustee list
• TAYLOR, John David — director, appointed 01/01/1993on trustee list
• DUROSE, Marion Alexandra — secretary, appointed 29/01/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADRIAN M JANSENchair
• Adam Edwin John Taylor
• DAVID E REYNOLDS
• JOHN D TAYLOR
• JOHN W WALKERS · trustee of 1 other charity
• PETER RUYSEN
• Russell Harman
• Susan Ann Lamb

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• SPRINGFIELD TRUST LIMITED income £1.2m
• THE SPRINGFIELD PROJECT income £1.7m
• SANDRINGHAM ESTATE COTTAGE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY TRUST income £264k
• SOUTHPORT FLOWER SHOW income £1.4m
• THE LONDON CHILDREN'S FLOWER SOCIETY income £26k
• SPRINGFIELD CHURCH income £196k

Side by side with its peers

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