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Registered charity · Essex

The Gibberd Garden Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £80k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Essex, Hertfordshire
Website
www.thegibberdgarden.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£80k£96k
  • 2024£92k£108k
  • 2023£114k£93k
Earlier years
  • 2022£90k£87k
  • 2021£84k£65k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT AND BENEFIT OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND THOSE OF HARLOW AND THE SURRONUDING AREA OF ESSEX AND HERTFORDSHIRE IN PARTICULAR ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT") (A) THE MAINTENANCE (SO FAR AS PRACTICAL) OF THE HOUSE AND GROUNDS AS DESIGNED OR LAID OUT BY SIR FEDERICK GIBBERD AND OPENING THEM TO THE PUBLIC (SO FAR AS PRACTICAL); (B) THE PRESERVATION AND PUBLIC DISPLAY (SO FAR AS PRACTICAL) AS THEY WERE ARRANGED BY SIR FREDERICK GIBBERD OF THE WORKS OF ART AND OTHER CHATTELS OF ARTISTIC ORNAMENTAL OR HISTORICAL INTREST CONTAINED OR FORMERLY CONTAINED IN THE HOUSE AND GROUND; (C) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIP IN ART ARCHITECTURE PLANNING LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE OR SUCH OTHER BRANCHES OF LEARNING OR EDUCATION AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT; (D) THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF ART ARCHITECTURE PLANNING LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND ALLIED SUBJECTS; (E) THE PROVISION OF THE GROUNDS AS A PUBLIC OPEN SPACE.

Grants received

11 grants · £619,265 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 · £569,800 (3 grants)
  • Essex Community Foundation · £46,465 (7 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £3,000

Most recent

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.

3.8y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Environment/conservation/heritage 6Accommodation/housing 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.

Education 1Other services 1

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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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£80k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1053608
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 25TH JUNE 1995. as amended on 19 Mar 2019
Contact on the register
01279442112 · enquiries@thegibberdgarden.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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