ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF BRISTOL UNIVERSITY BOTANIC GARDEN

Registered charity 291159 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF BRISTOL UNIVERSITY BOTANIC GARDEN

To support the work and development of the Botanic Garden and to stimulate interest through a variety of events and activities. Income generated by such events, and also from membership subscriptions, is used to invest in new projects in the garden, make a major contribution to its upkeep and support horticultural education through the funding of trainees in the garden.

Objects

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO, BOTANY AND ITS RELATED SUBJECTS AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus and holds £160,238 in its general fund, which includes substantial legacies held for future projects. The trustees report that the organization started the year in a steady position with robust health, supported by a diverse income stream primarily from subscriptions and gift aid.

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 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
• 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
• Risk management
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lucy Davieschair
• Christine Anne Radford
• Eva Louise BARRETT
• Ian KNIGHT
• Janet Newland
• Josephine Tarnowski · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lydia Daniels
• Mrs J Martin
• PATRICIA MARGARET DAVIE
• Paul Mugford
• Robert Nicholas BRISTOW

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

Operates in: Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FRIENDS OF OXFORD BOTANIC GARDEN & ARBORETUM.

• THE FRIENDS OF OXFORD BOTANIC GARDEN & ARBORETUM income £242k
• THE NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN OF WALES income £5.4m
• THE EXBURY GARDENS TRUST income £128k
• Gardening with Disabilities Trust income £122k
• THE GARDEN MUSEUM income £4.3m
• BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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