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Registered charity · Richmond

The Foundation and Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens,KEW

The Company is established for the public benefit for the object of supporting such of the purposes of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and in such manner as the Company shall from time to time think fit.

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £3.4m (2026)
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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
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Richmond Upon Thames, West Sussex, Brazil, Madagascar
Website
www.kew.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Foundation and Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, KEW
Registered
1990

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£3.4m£5.2m
  • 2025£2.6m£4.2m
  • 2024£7.2m£3.6m
Earlier years
  • 2023£5.5m£3.6m
  • 2022£4.3m£8.7m

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Charitable objects

The Company is established for the public benefit for the object of supporting such of the purposes of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and in such manner as the Company shall from time to time think fit.

Grants received

27 grants · £46,812,336 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 · £16,541,500
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,505,123
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £8,000,000 (2 grants)
  • ARCADIA · £6,599,459 (3 grants)
  • Postcode Green Trust · £3,500,000 (4 grants)

Most recent

  • Postcode Green Trust £900,0002025-02-25
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £10,4222024-04-02
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £82,0972024-04-01
  • John Lyon's Charity £200,0002024-03-14
  • Postcode Green Trust £900,0002023-12-01

Contracts awarded

3 contracts

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender (Open Government Licence v3.0), where this organisation is recorded as the buyer. Suppliers are matched to a Governance Register company or charity page at confidence 0.7 or higher; below that they are shown by name only.

Top suppliers

Most recent

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.

3 trustees on the board

1y median 0y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
12.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (1)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Environment/conservation/heritage 3Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 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 4Arts and leisure 2Business services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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£2.6m 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.

36.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 12.5 in 2021

0
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
803428
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 3RD MAY 1990 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON 27TH SEPTEMBER 1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/03/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04 JUL 2017 as amended on 18 Oct 2022
Companies House
Company number 02499006 · Active - Proposal to Strike off
Contact on the register
0208 332 5000 · info@kew.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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