SOCIETY FOR HORTICULTURAL THERAPY

Registered charity 277570 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THRIVE

Thrive is the leading UK gardening for health charity, helping to improve people's physical and mental health through gardening. Thrive has over 45 years' experience of an approach called Social and Therapeutic Horticulture (STH), where trained horticultural therapists work with people and plants to improve an individual's physical and psychological health, communication and social skills.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small surplus of £12,521 before investments, with total income increasing by 30% to £2,110,643. Free reserves are held at £939,013, representing seven months of operating cover, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of six months. The trustees consider the financial outlook significantly improved, though they note that maintaining this trajectory requires further fundraising success.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £69,236 (FY2024) to £71,050 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01415700

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ben Thomas — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• MACLENNAN, Euan James Alasdair — director, appointed 16/03/2026on trustee list
• GOODMAN, Laurence William — director, appointed 08/09/2025on trustee list
• PHILBRICK, Sarah Monica Loveday — director, appointed 08/09/2025on trustee list
• KENNY, Mark Jeffery — director, appointed 08/09/2025on trustee list
• LEADBITTER, Neil James, Dr — director, appointed 09/09/2021on trustee list
• MLLER, Ian Peter — director, appointed 09/09/2021not on trustee list
• JAMES, John, Dr — director, appointed 29/03/2021on trustee list
• KARIGER, Benedicte — director, appointed 13/06/2019on trustee list
• DYER, David — director, appointed 13/06/2019on trustee list
• KERSHAW, Sophy — director, appointed 15/11/2018on trustee list
• JARRETT, Deborah Ann — director, appointed 15/11/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~19.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/06/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Philbrickchair
• Benedicte Kariger
• David Dyer
• Deborah Jarrett
• Dr John James
• Dr Neil James Leadbitter
• Euan MacLennan
• Ian Peter Miller
• Laurence Goodman
• Mark Kenny
• Sophy Kershaw

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNIGROW.

• COMMUNIGROW income £257k
• THRIVE SOCIAL HOUSING income £13.0m
• SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY GARDENS income £134k
• BRIDEWELL ORGANIC GARDENS income £378k
• SOCIAL FARMS AND GARDENS income £1.1m
• GARDENERS' ROYAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY income £5.0m

Side by side with its peers

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