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Registered charity · Birmingham

The Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society Limited

The Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society Limited is a registered charity (number 528981) based in Birmingham, governed by 12 trustees. Latest income £2.0m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses (Charity Commission)

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £2.0m (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Animals and 2 more
Where
Birmingham City
Website
www.birminghambotanicalgardens.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society Limited
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.0m£2.1m
  • 2024£2.1m£2.1m
  • 2023£2.5m£1.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£1.7m
  • 2021£1.6m£1.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO FURTHER PUBLIC EDUCATION IN BOTANY, HORTICULTURE AND ZOOLOGY AND TO ENCOURAGE AND PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDY AND RESEARCH THEREIN AND TO INCREASE AND DIFFUSE KNOWLEDGE THEREOF AND INTEREST THEREIN AND TO PROVIDE, MAINTAIN AND PRESERVE GARDENS, GROUNDS, BUILDINGS AND LANDS IN OR ABOUT THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM FOR THE SAID PURPOSES AND FOR THE RECREATION OF THE PUBLIC

Grants received

11 grants · £15,477,287 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 · £10,260,957 (5 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £5,010,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £188,100
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £18,230 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Garfield Weston Foundation £5,000,0002024-11-11
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £9,900,5272022-09-15
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £188,1002020-10-14
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £57,5002020-05-18
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £10,0002020-03-20
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.

12 trustees on the board

3.7y median 3.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (1)

11
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 12Education/training 12General Charitable Purposes 11Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Arts and leisure 14Retail and trade 5Construction 3

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.0m 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.

1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.9 in 2021

44 from 25 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
528981
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 18 JUNE 1930, AS ALTERED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED 27 MARCH 1957, 15 NOVEMBER 1960, 20 MARCH 1962,12 SEPTEMBER 1984 AND 26TH SEPTEMBER 2005 as amended on 07 Dec 2018 as amended on 05 Oct 2022
Companies House
Company number 00248827 · Active
Contact on the register
01214541860 · admin@birminghambotanicalgardens.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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