Friends of Swansea Botanical Gardens

We support the conservation, maintenance and use of Swansea Botanical Gardens in Singleton Park, with particular reference to encouraging public education in botany, horticulture and environment preservation. The support is partly financial, partly in the form of advice, and by provision of volunteers for relevant activities.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• City of Swansea

Area of benefit in its governing document: In Practice Swansea

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £42,139 and spent £45,267.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 42%, from £72,516 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £42,139 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 107% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Awards For All: Gardening Tools gave £4,985 in the year to 31 December 2024, 8% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 December 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 December 2024, the charity named 2 funders who gave £5,985 between them. £0 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 5 grants to this charity since 2017, worth at least £36,610.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

11 trustees run the charity.

• Sonja OlsenChairAppointed 12 June 2019
• Alex Sian JenkinsAppointed 3 June 2026
• Amanda Melborough WhiteAppointed 31 May 2023
• Christine ThomasAppointed 3 June 2026
• Karen TelfordAppointed 3 June 2026
• Nigel Patrick GundyAppointed 3 June 2026
• Pamela MorganAppointed 1 August 2024
• Peter LewisAppointed 1 April 2026
• Robert David ThomasAppointed 3 June 2026
• Susan BarkerAppointed 15 June 2016
• Wendy OwenAppointed 29 May 2024

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1052032

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

15 January 1996

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 16 FEBRUARY 1994 AS AMENDED 26 APRIL 1995, 11 MAY 2000 & 26 APRIL 2001. as amended on 13 Jun 2018 as amended on 18 Jul 2018 as amended on 31 May 2023

Website

botanicsswansea.co.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Swansea

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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