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Registered charity · Carmarthenshire

The National Botanic Garden of Wales

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £5.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Carmarthenshire
Website
botanicgarden.wales (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The National Botanic Garden of Wales
Registered
1994

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.4m£4.9m
  • 2024£4.4m£5.3m
  • 2023£5.3m£5.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.1m£5.3m
  • 2021£5.0m£4.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE, TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE SCIENCE OF PLANTS AND RELATED SUBJECTS AND THE CONSERVATION OF PLANT SPECIES OF THE WORLD ESPECIALLY THOSE OF WALES, GREAT BRITAIN AND WESTERN EUROPEAN SEABOARD, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(A) THE ESTABLISHMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN FOR WALES OPEN TO THE PUBLIC;(B) THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL CONSERVATION ASSET OF LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PLANT SPECIES;(C) THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN PLANT BIODIVERSITY AND THE CREATION OF AN EXEMPLAR OF GOOD HORTICULTURAL PRACTICE;(D) THE PROVISION OF FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION AND INTERPRETATION EXPERIENCES FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND ABILITIES PARTICULARLY TO ENHANCE UNDERSTANDING OF THE INTERACTION OF PEOPLE, PLANTS, LANDSCAPE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE; AND(II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF WELSH CULTURE AND HISTORICAL HERITAGE BY THE RESTORATION OF THE HISTORIC LANDSCAPED ENVIRONMENT AND BUILDING AT THE SITE OF THE NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN REFERRED TO IN (I)(A) ABOVE.

Grants received

6 grants · £4,498,503 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £4,408,585 (4 grants)
  • Postcode Community Trust · £80,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £9,918

Most recent

  • Postcode Community Trust £80,0002025-09-08
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £249,9852023-06-06
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £247,7002020-07-13
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,9182018-06-12
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £3,865,5002014-07-22
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

12 trustees on the board

3.4y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

11
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 12Education/training 12Environment/conservation/heritage 10Recreation 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 13Education 4Health and social care 4

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£5.4m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 10.5 in 2021

83 from 86 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1036354
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16/03/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/08/1996AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 12/09/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/06/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 08/12/2015 as amended on 29 Nov 2024
Companies House
Company number 02909098 · Active
Contact on the register
01558667102 · account@gardenofwales.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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