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Registered charity · Coventry

The Henry Doubleday Research Association

The Henry Doubleday Research Association is a registered charity (number 298104) based in Coventry, governed by 9 trustees. Latest income £3.2m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Garden Organic, Hdra (Charity Commission)

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £3.2m (2025)
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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
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.gardenorganic.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Henry Doubleday Research Association
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.2m£2.4m
  • 2023£2.1m£2.1m
  • 2022£1.5m£1.9m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.7m£1.8m
  • 2020£1.7m£1.8m

Income trend, 2020 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 11% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND SCIENCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY: THE IMPROVEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE AND AGRICULTURE IN ALL THEIR BRANCHES THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF ORGANIC METHODS AND PRINCIPLES. RESEARCH INTO AND THE STUDY OF ORGANIC METHODS AND PRINCIPLES OF HORTICULTURE AND AGRICULTURE AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF. THE ADVANCEMENT OF AWARENESS AND KNOWLEDGE OF ECOSYSTEMS AND OUR IMPACT ON THEM BY DEMONSTRATING THE VALUE OF ORGANIC METHODS ON A BROAD EDUCATIONAL FRONT BOTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS.THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE COMPANY'S PROPERTY AT RYTON GARDENS (AND/OR SUCH OTHER PROPERTIES AS THE COMPANY MAY MANAGE OR ACQUIRE) AND THE CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE THEREON AS A CENTRE OR CENTRES FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INTO THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ORGANIC METHODS OF AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE WILDLIFE USING THE PROPERTY AS THEIR NATURAL HABITAT AND TO MAKE THE SAME AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION AND STUDY BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

Grants received

11 grants · £2,689,150 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.

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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.

9 trustees on the board

1.6y median 1y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

8
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 9Environment/conservation/heritage 9General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Professional services 9Tech and media 3Retail and trade 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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2025
incomespending£3.2m latest income
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.

6.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.4 in 2020

43 from 44 in 2020
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.
12%
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
298104
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04/11/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/01/1989AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/10/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/11/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/09/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/05/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 SEP 2021
Companies House
Company number 02188402 · Active
Contact on the register
02476303517 · enquiry@gardenorganic.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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