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Registered charity · Richmond

Botanic Gardens Conservation International

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £3.1m (2024)
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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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Richmond Upon Thames, Argentina, Brazil, China and more
Website
www.bgci.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£3.1m£3.4m
  • 2023£3.2m£3.7m
  • 2022£3.0m£2.9m
Earlier years
  • 2021£2.3m£2.0m
  • 2020£2.0m£2.0m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 50%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(I) TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF PLANT SPECIES OF THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING THE PROMOTION OF THE CULTIVATION AND MAINTENANCE OF SUCH PLANTS BY BOTANIC GARDENS THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN RELATION TO SUCH PLANTS AND THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH CONCERNING SUCH PLANTS AND THEIR CONSERVATION PROVIDED THAT ALL THE USEFUL RESULTS SUCH RESEARCH SHALL BE PUBLISHED

Grants received

22 grants · £3,993,854 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

Most recent

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £94,4092024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £163,5852024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £49,4302024-04-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £141,9852022-06-01
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £183,0522022-06-01
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.

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.2y
average years in governance
10
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 13Accommodation/housing 1Education/training 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.

Other services 12Professional services 8Agriculture 2

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3.1m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

1.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.3 in 2020

31 from 21 in 2020
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
1098834
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/02/2003AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 16/12/2003
Companies House
Company number 04673175 · Active
Contact on the register
02081755105 · info@bgci.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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