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Registered charity · Guildford

The National Garden Scheme

The National Garden Scheme is a registered charity (number 1112664) based in Guildford, governed by 15 trustees and chaired by Rupert David Tyler since 2020. Latest income £5.8m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £5.8m (2025)
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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Guernsey, Jersey, Northern Ireland
Website
www.ngs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The National Garden Scheme
Registered
2006

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.8m£5.5m
  • 2024£6.3m£5.7m
  • 2023£5.0m£5.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.8m£4.6m
  • 2021£4.0m£3.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

3. THE OBJECTS ARE3.1 ASSISTING SUCH CHARITIES OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT;3.2 SUPPORTING CHARITIES, IN THEIR WORK IN THE PROVISION OF NURSING AND CARING, THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION OF HEALTH; AND3.3 SUPPORTING THE QUEEN’S NURSING INSTITUTE IN ITS WORK.

Grants received

1 grant · £25,000 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

  • LUND TRUST · £25,000

Most recent

  • LUND TRUST £25,0002022-10-30
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.

15 trustees on the board

5.2y median 5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (2)

15
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 15Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 1Other Charitable Purposes 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.

Health and social care 15Tech and media 3Arts and leisure 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£6.3m 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.

3.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 5.0 in 2020

13 from 13 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
1112664
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 21 NOVEMBER 2005 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 18 JUNE 2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 JUN 2016AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 24 OCT 2016AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 09 MAR 2017 null
Companies House
Company number 05631421 · Active
Contact on the register
01483211535 · richard@ngs.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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