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Registered charity · London

The Royal Horticultural Society

The Royal Horticultural Society is a registered charity (number 222879) based in London, governed by 18 trustees and chaired by Keith Charles Frederick Weed CBE since 2020. Latest income £125m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 11th October 2026.

Also known as R H S, RHS (Charity Commission)

  • 18 trustees
  • Income £125m (2025)
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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, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.rhs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Royal Horticultural Society
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£125m£133m
  • 2024£120m£125m
  • 2023£122m£120m
Earlier years
  • 2022£111m£103m
  • 2021£67m£67m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE SCIENCE, ART AND PRACTICE OF HORTICULTURE IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.

Grants received

23 grants · £12,912,404 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 · £6,395,144 (6 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £3,843,344
  • Monument Trust · £900,000 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £827,500 (3 grants)
  • ARCADIA · £642,096

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £3,843,3442026-03-16
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £246,7622026-03-12
  • SHAREGIFT £1,0002025-12-02
  • The Linbury Trust £104,0002025-10-06
  • Salford CVS £1,9002025-07-28
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.

18 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (15)

Portfolio (3)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 18Education/training 18Environment/conservation/heritage 18

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

Finance 4Other services 3Business services 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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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£124.8m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

1267 from 1010 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
222879
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED 10 NOVEMBER 1987, AND BYE LAWS ADOPTED 28 APRIL 1987 AS AMENDED 21 FEBRUARY 1995, 17 FEBRUARY 1998, 30 JUNE 2005 AND 1 JULY 2008 AND ORDER OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS DATED 20 APRIL 2005.AS AMENDED ON 27 JUN 2016 null as amended on 19 Feb 2021 null
Companies House
Company number RC000480 · Active
Contact on the register
020 3176 5800 · secretary@rhs.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 11th October 2026
Labels
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