Registered charity · Lancaster
The NEW Phytologist Foundation
- 12 trustees
- Income £2.2m (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Prof Keith LindsayChair · since 2013
- Dr Richard James NorbyTrustee · since 2013
- Leslie RossTrustee · since 2016
- Miriam MausTrustee · since 2022
- Prof Maria HarrisonTrustee · since 2014
- Prof. Wenbo MaTrustee · since 2026
- Prof. Yoselin Benitez AlfonsoTrustee · since 2026
- Professor Anne Elisabeth OsbournTrustee · since 2013
- Professor Dale SandersTrustee · since 2022
- Professor Maarja OpikTrustee · since 2025
- Professor Peter AtkinsonTrustee · since 2019
- Professor Simon HiscockTrustee · since 2017
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.newphytologist.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The NEW Phytologist Foundation
- Registered
- 2013
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£2.2m£1.8m
- 2023£2.0m£1.8m
- 2022£1.6m£1.5m
Earlier years
- 2021£1.4m£1.1m
- 2020£1.4m£1.1m
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY ADVANCING AND DISSEMINATING KNOWLEDGE AND STIMULATING RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF BOTANICAL SCIENCE
Board analysis for researchers
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.
12 trustees on the board
- Prof Keith Lindsay Chair since 2013
- Dr Richard James Norby since 2013
- Leslie Ross since 2016
- Miriam Maus since 2022
- Professor Anne Elisabeth Osbourn since 2013
- Professor Simon Hiscock since 2017
- Prof Maria Harrison since 2014
- Prof. Wenbo Ma since 2026
- Prof. Yoselin Benitez Alfonso since 2026
- Professor Dale Sanders since 2022
- Professor Maarja Opik since 2025
- Professor Peter Atkinson since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Prof Keith Lindsay Chair since 2013
- Dr Richard James Norby since 2013
- Leslie Ross since 2016
- Professor Anne Elisabeth Osbourn since 2013
- Professor Simon Hiscock since 2017
- Prof Maria Harrison since 2014
- Professor Peter Atkinson since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (10)
- Prof Keith Lindsay Chair since 2013
- Dr Richard James Norby since 2013
- Leslie Ross since 2016
- Miriam Maus since 2022
- Professor Anne Elisabeth Osbourn since 2013
- Prof Maria Harrison since 2014
- Prof. Wenbo Ma since 2026
- Prof. Yoselin Benitez Alfonso since 2026
- Professor Maarja Opik since 2025
- Professor Peter Atkinson since 2019
Portfolio (2)
- Professor Simon Hiscock since 2017
- Professor Dale Sanders since 2022
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
30.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 36.4 in 2020
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1154867
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 01 OCT 2013INCORPORATED 23/11/2013 as amended on 10 Jul 2020 as amended on 25 Feb 2022
- Companies House
- Company number 08789102 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01524 594691 · newphytol@lancaster.ac.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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