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Registered charity (CIO) · Salisbury

Horatio's Garden

To meet the particular, but not exclusively, the needs of people with spinal injuries by:3.1 Creating outdoor spaces called Horatio’s Gardens which are places of tranquillity and beauty at spinal treatment centres 3.2 Maintaining and improving...

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £3.6m (2026)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.horatiosgarden.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£3.6m£2.6m
  • 2025£3.3m£3.3m
  • 2024£3.0m£3.1m
Earlier years
  • 2023£2.3m£1.8m
  • 2022£2.6m£2.0m

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

To meet the particular, but not exclusively, the needs of people with spinal injuries by:3.1 Creating outdoor spaces called Horatio’s Gardens which are places of tranquillity and beauty at spinal treatment centres 3.2 Maintaining and improving Horatio’s Gardens 3.3 Supporting people with spinal injuries and their friends and relatives to enable them to use Horatio's Gardens 3.4 Facilitating events especially in Horatio’s Gardens for people with spinal injuries their friends' relatives and carers and for volunteers and staff at the spinal treatment centres 3.5 Training and supporting staff and volunteers who care for people with spinal injuries 3.6 Conducting research, gathering and disseminating information and working to raise awareness and further understanding as to the benefits of gardens and accessible design in health care settings, including consulting with and for third parties.

Grants received

31 grants · £1,302,138 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

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.

8 trustees on the board

7y median 6y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8

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

Tech and media 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£3.3m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

2.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.5 in 2021

43 from 20 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
1151475
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 02 APR 2013AMENDED ON 23 APR 2024 as amended on 19 Sept 2023
Contact on the register
01722326834 · info@horatiosgarden.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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