DEVON GARDENS TRUST

Registered charity 800540 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote, for the public benefit, the protection, conservation, enhancement, research and understanding of the Designed Landscapes of Devon and promote the education of the public on the arts, crafts, sciences, and all other matters connected with the heritage of those landscapes.

Objects

A.TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ON MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE ARTS AND SCIENCES OF GARDEN LAND. B.TO PRESERVE ENHANCE AND RECREATE FOR THE EDUCATION AND ENJOYMENT OF THE PUBLIC WHATEVER GARDEN LAND MAY EXIST OR HAVE EXISTED IN AND AROUND THE COUNTY OF DEVON.

Area of benefit: DEVON

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: Exeter, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £215,196 for the year, primarily driven by a £210,051 legacy receipt and investment gains. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves of £333,870 are held in excess of their stated policy target of twice the average annual expenditure, with the excess predominantly due to the large legacy. The charity maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Social media 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Devon Gardens Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hugo Howard Claude Bugg
• Ian William Smith
• James William Wheeler
• Jane Alison Knight
• Naomi Louise Cleaver
• Paul Faulkner
• Peter Bieneman
• Stephanie Jane Berry

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

Operates in: Devon · Plymouth City · Torbay

Income and spending

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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 DEVON WILDLIFE TRUST.

• DEVON WILDLIFE TRUST income £7.5m
• TREBAH GARDEN TRUST income £3.0m
• THE FORTESCUE GARDEN TRUST income £401k
• DAWLISH GARDENS TRUST income £788k
• THE NORTH DEVON BIOSPHERE FOUNDATION income £843k
• DEVON HISTORIC BUILDINGS TRUST income £386k

Side by side with its peers

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