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Registered charity · Hertfordshire

Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland and more
Website
bsbi.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£919k
  • 2024£818k£697k
  • 2023£538k£622k
Earlier years
  • 2022£459k£501k
  • 2021£396k£422k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 13% · Government grants 13%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF AND INTEREST IN THE BRITISH AND IRISH VASCULAR PLANT AND CHAROPHYTE FLORA.2. TO SUPPORT, ENCOURAGE, CARRY OUT AND PARTICIPATE IN RESEARCH INTO THE TAXONOMY, ECOLOGY, BIOGEOGRAPHY AND CONSERVATION OF THE BRITISH AND IRISH FLORA AND TO CO-OPERATE WITH CONTINENTAL AND OTHER BOTANISTS IN MATTERS OF MUTUAL INTEREST AND CONCERN.

Grants received

3 grants · £108,625 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 · £68,800 (2 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £39,825

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £39,8252024-03-05
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £8,8002020-08-17
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £60,0002018-10-04
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.

3.9y median 3.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (4)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 12Environment/conservation/heritage 12Recreation 11Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Tech and media 12Health and social care 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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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£1.4m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

18.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 16.1 in 2021

16 from 12 in 2023
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.
26%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1152954
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 03/06/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/07/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/11/2015 as amended on 21 Nov 2020
Companies House
Company number 08553976 · Active
Contact on the register
01727 838255 · info@wmtllp.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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