THE EXBURY GARDENS TRUST

Registered charity 299534 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND THE OPENING TO THE PUBLIC OF EXBURY GARDENS IN HAMPSHIRE. THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND FROM TIME TO TIME IN FORCE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE

Objects

(1) THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND THE OPENING TO THE PUBLIC OF EXBURY GARDENS IN HAMPSHIRE. (2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND (3) THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND FROM TIME TO TIME IN FORCE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE EXBURY

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: New Forest, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust has unrestricted funds of £11,118,343, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain the capital base and cover management costs. The Trust reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. It provides ongoing financial support to Exbury Gardens Limited, a related party, and monitors the business closely.

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 4 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARONESS KARI DE KOENIGSWARTER
• Leopold James de Rothschild
• MR LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melanie Aspey · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROBERT HOWELL
• SIMON JOHN LAWRENCE LINNETT

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EBBSFLEET GARDEN CITY TRUST.

• EBBSFLEET GARDEN CITY TRUST income £332k
• EXBURY GARDENS LIMITED income £2.3m
• HAMPSHIRE GARDENS TRUST income £67k
• BADGWORTHY TRUST FOR THE PRESERVATION OF EXMOOR income £109k
• LONDON HISTORIC PARKS AND GARDENS TRUST income £222k
• THE HIGH BEECHES GARDENS CONSERVATION TRUST income £112k

Side by side with its peers

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