THE HENRY DOUBLEDAY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 298104 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5522274 · Wikipedia · also known as GARDEN ORGANIC, HDRA · also registered in Scotland as SC046767 (OSCR)

Garden Organic promotes organic gardening. Our focus is on individual, community and school gardens throughout the UK. We use innovative practices to inspire and encourage people to grow organically. We collaborate with others to achieve the greatest impact.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND SCIENCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY: THE IMPROVEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE AND AGRICULTURE IN ALL THEIR BRANCHES THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF ORGANIC METHODS AND PRINCIPLES. RESEARCH INTO AND THE STUDY OF ORGANIC METHODS AND PRINCIPLES OF HORTICULTURE AND AGRICULTURE AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF. THE ADVANCEMENT OF AWARENESS AND KNOWLEDGE OF ECOSYSTEMS AND OUR IMPACT ON THEM BY DEMONSTRATING THE VALUE OF ORGANIC METHODS ON A BROAD EDUCATIONAL FRONT BOTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS.THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE COMPANY'S PROPERTY AT RYTON GARDENS (AND/OR SUCH OTHER PROPERTIES AS THE COMPANY MAY MANAGE OR ACQUIRE) AND THE CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE THEREON AS A CENTRE OR CENTRES FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INTO THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ORGANIC METHODS OF AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE WILDLIFE USING THE PROPERTY AS THEIR NATURAL HABITAT AND TO MAKE THE SAME AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AND STUDY BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONALLY

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rugby, 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 surplus of £874,245 and unrestricted reserves of £1,276,584, which significantly exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of £500,000. The trustees confirm that the charity has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern, although they note that payments towards the defined benefit pension scheme liability put significant pressure on the annual budgeted expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2023) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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 conflicts of interest 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.

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 31/12/2022 (received 05/12/2023, 35 days after the 31/10/2023 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: ORGANIC ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 01789247
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02188402

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Fiona — Chief Executive (source)
• Bruce Pearce — Associate Director of Science (source)
• Colette Bond — Director of Communities (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.

• RHODES, Hannah — director, appointed 18/08/2026on trustee list
• ZIANE, Louisa — director, appointed 19/05/2026on trustee list
• DENNIS, Will — director, appointed 24/02/2026on trustee list
• BOND, David — director, appointed 27/02/2025on trustee list
• BOSHER, Caroline — director, appointed 27/02/2025on trustee list
• VARNEY, John Charles — director, appointed 27/02/2025on trustee list
• MAZZA, Nadia — director, appointed 19/07/2024on trustee list
• MCINDOE, Joylon Thorpe — director, appointed 25/06/2022on trustee list
• ARROWSMITH, Keith Grant — director, appointed 17/09/2021on trustee list
• ALI, Rizwan — secretary, appointed 17/10/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 27.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Bosher
• David Bond
• Hannah Rhodes
• John Varney
• Joylon Thorpe McIndoe
• Keith Arrowsmith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Louisa Ziane · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nadia Mazza
• Will Dennis

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

Operates in: Scotland · 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 DUNTON COMMUNITY GARDEN GROUP.

• DUNTON COMMUNITY GARDEN GROUP income £26k
• THE SHEEPDROVE TRUST income £200k
• THE CONGELOW ORGANIC EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £27k
• BRIDEWELL ORGANIC GARDENS income £378k
• GREEN ALLOTMENTS income £189k
• DAWLISH GARDENS TRUST income £788k

Side by side with its peers

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