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Registered charity · Wales

Social Farms and Gardens

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (2025)

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

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Animals and 4 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.farmgarden.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Social Farms and Gardens
Registered
1986

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.6m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.8m£1.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 55%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:(1) PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE WITHOUTDISCRIMINATION BY BRINGING TOGETHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY= ORGANISATIONS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN A COMMON EFFORT TOADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION ANDOTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEQUALITY OF LIFE OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, INCLUDING CHILDREN, YOUNGPEOPLE, SOCIALLY EXCLUDED PEOPLE, ELDERLY PEOPLE, DISABLED PEOPLEAND OTHERWISE DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE.(2) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OFTHE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN HORTICULTURE,AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OFTHEPHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, THE REDUCTION, RE-USE AND.RECYCLING OF RESOURCES, THE USE OF RENEWABLE RESOURCES, RESPECTFOR THE ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, ANIMAL WELFARE,COMMUNITY COHESION, CITIZENSHIP, LIFE SKILLS, THE PROMOTION OFEQUALITY AND OTHER RELATED SUBJECTS, SO THAT THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE MAYBE IMPROVED.(3) = PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OFSUCH FACILITIES, INCLUDING CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE, SOCIALLY EXCLUDEDPEOPLE, ELDERLY PEOPLE, DISABLED PEOPLE AND OTHERWISEDISADVANTAGED PEOPLE, SO AS TO PREPARE THEM FOR ANY TRADE,OCCUPATION OR SERVICE AND THEREBY ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE OR ENABLETHEM TO EARN THEIR OWN LIVELIHOOD.(4) ADVANCING EDUCATION IN THE CARE AND CONSIDERATION OF ALL ANIMALS,SO THAT THE PUBLIC WILL LEARN GREATER AWARENESS OF AND APPRECIATIONFOR SUCH ANIMALS.(5) PROVIDING RELIEF BY WAY OF THERAPEUTIC AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIESAND FACILITIES TO PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES,INCLUDING DISABLED PEOPLE AND OTHERWISE DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE.

Grants received

33 grants · £4,301,721 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

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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.

7 trustees on the board

2y median 2y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
9.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

7
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 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7Education/training 6Economic/community Development/employment 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.

Other services 8Education 3Agriculture 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£1.1m 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.

1.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

25 from 19 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
294494
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 16 APRIL 1986 AND AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 6 JULY 1998, 10 SEPTEMBER 2005, 5 FEBRUARY 2008 AND 4 SEPTEMBER 2010 REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 22 SEPTEMBER 2010.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20 JUN 2018
Companies House
Company number 02011023 · Active
Contact on the register
01179231800 · admin@farmgarden.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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