THE FOUNDATION AND FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS,KEW

Registered charity 803428 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF KEW, KEW FOUNDATION, THE FOUNDATION AND FRIENDS OF THE RBGKEW, THE FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW, THE FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS,KEW, THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW FOUNDATION

THE PURPOSE OF THE CHARITY IS TO SUPPORT THE OBJECTS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW.IT RAISES VOLUNTARY INCOME FROM TWO PRINCIPAL SOURCES FOR THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW: FUNDS RAISED THROUGH ITS LEGACY PROGRAMME; AND RETURNS FROM ITS ENDOWMENT VIA INVESTED FUNDS.

Objects

The Company is established for the public benefit for the object of supporting such of the purposes of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and in such manner as the Company shall from time to time think fit.

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: 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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ceased trading and transferred all net assets to RBG Kew, resulting in zero net assets at the year-end. The financial statements were prepared on a breakup basis as the charity is being wound up. The auditor issued an unmodified opinion, noting the non-going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2025) to "below" (FY2026).
• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2025) → not a going concern (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 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
• 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

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fern Karen Stoner
• Rebecca Jane Munro · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Almond

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

Operates in: Brazil · Madagascar · Richmond Upon Thames · West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE KEW GUILD.

• THE KEW GUILD income £41k
• THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF GARDENERS OF LONDON CHARITY income £109k

Side by side with its peers

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