Cowbridge Physic Garden Trust Limited

The garden is situated in the centre of Cowbridge and is open free of charge 364 days a year. It is designed to increase awareness of the long history of medicinal plants in the development of pharmaceuticals and also provides horticultural and educational resources for all as well as being a place for relaxation.

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

In Wales

• Vale of Glamorgan

Area of benefit in its governing document: Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan.

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 30 June 2025, it had income of £30,283 and spent £31,873.

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

Up 42%, from £21,270 in the year to 30 June 2021 to £30,283 in the year to 30 June 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 105% of its income in the year to 30 June 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 5 years shown.

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 30 June 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.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 2 grants to this charity since 2006, worth at least £49,270.

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.

10 trustees run the charity.

• Mrs Jo HomfrayChairAppointed 21 February 2006
• Dr Val CapleAppointed 1 March 2009
• Genevieve Margaret ThomasAppointed 21 February 2006
• Martyn John HurstAppointed 23 July 2010
• Matthew Wayne Treharne JonesAppointed 29 January 2019
• Melanie Theresa HurstAppointed 2 May 2023
• Michael BakerAppointed 2 May 2023
• Pamela Margaret Haines MAAppointed 13 May 2015
• Robert Rosser John EvansAppointed 28 September 2021
• Susan BissonAppointed 26 January 2026

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, 4 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

1110127

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

21 June 2005

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 4 MAY 2004.

Company number

05118600This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.cowbridgephysicgarden.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Vale of Glamorgan

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy 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
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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