# THE ANNALS OF BOTANY COMPANY

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 237771
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** Dec. 22, 1964
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=237771


## Contact

- **Address:** Lord Milford Building, Plas Gogerddan, ABERYSTWYTH, Ceredigion, Wales
- **Postcode:** SY23 3EE
- **Phone:** 00000 000000
- **Email:** isd@aber.ac.uk
- **Website:** http://annalsofbotanycompany.co.uk/home-welcome



## Activities

**Objects:** TO PROMOTE THE SCIENCE OF BOTANY AND WITH THAT OBJECT TO PRINT, PUBLISH, SELL AND DISTRIBUTE THE PUBLICATION KNOWN AS "THE ANNALS OF BOTANY", AND ANY OTHER BOOKS, REPORTS, MAGAZINES AND PERIODICALS RELATING TO BOTANY, AND TO ACQUIRE AND EXERCISE ANY RIGHTS IN RELATION THERETO, AND TO MAKE GRANTS FOR THE PROSECUTION OF BOTANICAL RESEARCH AND BOTANICAL TRAVEL; AND FROM TIME TO TIME TO EMPLOY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE COMPANY SHALL CONSIDER CONDUCIVE TO THE PROMOTION OF BOTANICAL SCIENCE.

**Activities:** The Company delivers public benefit by publishing original plant science in its journals Annals of Botany, AoB Plants, and in silico Plants. It operates on a not-for-profit basis and applies any surpluses to the creation and free distribution world-wide of the botanical media Botany One and The Week in Botany. It also makes selective grants and donations in pursuit of plant science more generally.

**Area of benefit:** NATIONAL




## Classification

- **How:** Makes Grants To Individuals, Makes Grants To Organisations, Provides Services
- **What:** Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Australia
- Belgium
- Canada
- Chile
- China
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Ireland
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Switzerland
- United States
- Throughout England And Wales



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 31, 2024 | £578216 | £585291 | £3721547 | 0 |
| Dec. 31, 2023 | £578789 | £485057 | £3894997 | 0 |
| Dec. 31, 2022 | £504897 | £456019 | £3602969 | 0 |
| Dec. 31, 2021 | £538909 | £387700 | £3903137 | 0 |
| Dec. 31, 2020 | £539987 | £431300 | £3441006 | 2 |



## Trustees

- **PROFESSOR HUGH GORDON DICKINSON DSc** (Chair)
- PROFESSOR GAIL TAYLOR — appointed June 4, 2025
- Professor Iain Simon Donnison — appointed June 4, 2025
- Professor Philip Mark Gilmartin — appointed Dec. 15, 2021
- Professor Roderick Hunt — appointed June 12, 2024