THE BENTHAM-MOXON TRUST

Registered charity 305966 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHARITIES ADMINISTERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW, THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW

To provide financial support for plant and fungal collection, research and education that further the work of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Objects

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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.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £128,603 are held, which is comfortably within the trustees' policy target of approximately £32,500. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year of £391,654, driven largely by a £360,224 loss on investments, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £8,043,868 to £7,652,214.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. 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.

• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~13.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Isabel Maria A Larridonchair
• Dr Elinor Breman
• Dr MARK ANDREW CARINE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nina Roberta Ciuffardi
• Raoul Patrick Paul Curtis-Machin
• Ruth Close · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Richmond Upon Thames

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• BCH TRUST income £237k
• THE WYMONDHAM BRIDEWELL PRESERVATION TRUST income £50k
• THE GWENETH MOXON CHARITABLE TRUST income £43k
• THE BOLTONS TRUST income £34k
• THE KELTON TRUST income £65k
• WOODROFFE BENTON FOUNDATION income £263k

Side by side with its peers

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