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Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society

Also known as: Perennial

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC040180
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed Sept. 23, 2026. Filing history
Registered
Jan. 9, 2009
Legal form
Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Address
115 - 117 Kingston Road
Leatherhead
Surrey
KT22 7SU

Contact

Website
perennial.org.uk
Screenshot of the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Society website

Activities

'It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals','It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations','It carries out activities or services itself'

'the advancement of education','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

Beneficiaries: 'Older People','People with disabilities or health problems','Other defined groups'

Objectives: The objects of the Charity (the 'Objects') shall be:- 3.1.1 the relief and assistance by such means as the Trustees shall determine to be appropriate in each case of gardeners or persons who are or who have been in like employment or occupation of those closely involved in gardening or related activities or those training to be gardeners or persons of like occupation and their spouses or widows/widowers or unmarried partners and/or immediate dependants (the 'Beneficiaries') in necessitous circumstances or in circumstances of poverty, illness, disability (whether mental or physical) old age. and/or 3.1.2 the advancement for the public benefit of education and training in or relating to horticulture or gardening. and/or 3.1.3 the provision, maintenance or assistance in the provision and maintenance of gardens and open space for training, rehabilitation and other charitable purposes for public benefit and in particular the preservation and maintenance of gardens of historic and/or aesthetic importance to be enjoyed by and made available to the public at large. and/or 3.1.4 to further such other exclusively charitable purposes according to the law of England and Wales as the Trustees in their absolute discretion from time to time determine.

Geography

Main operating location
Outwith Scotland
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure Employees
Dec. 31, 2025 Sept. 23, 2026On time £4,955,386 £5,245,089 70
Dec. 31, 2024 Sept. 12, 2025On time £4,335,482 £5,556,491 72
Dec. 31, 2023 July 17, 2024On time £4,614,296 £5,997,215 78
Dec. 31, 2022 Aug. 23, 2023On time £4,032,661 £5,066,096 79
Dec. 31, 2021 July 6, 2022On time £5,191,750 £4,315,218 69
Dec. 31, 2020 June 16, 2021 £3,831,406 £3,780,413 64

Due dates are 9 months after the year end, OSCR's deadline, so they don't allow for any extension OSCR has granted.