The Annals of Botany Company

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.

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

Elsewhere

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

Area of benefit in its governing document: National

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

The register has no income or spending figures for this charity.

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 7%, from £538,909 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £578,216 in the year to 31 December 2024.

Spending against income

It spent 101% of its income in the year to 31 December 2024. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 4 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 31 December 2024: 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.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

5 trustees run the charity.

• PROFESSOR HUGH GORDON DICKINSON DScChair
• Professor Gail TaylorAppointed 4 June 2025
• Professor Iain Simon DonnisonAppointed 4 June 2025
• Professor Philip Mark GilmartinAppointed 15 December 2021
• Professor Roderick HuntAppointed 12 June 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, 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

237771

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

22 December 1964

Governing document

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION (REVISED 31ST MARCH 1948) AND AMENDED BY RESOLUTION MADE UNDER SECTION 75 OF THE CHARITIES ACT 1993 ON 19TH OCTOBER 1998.

Company number

00078001This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

annalsofbotanycompany.co.uk/home-welcomeAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Ceredigion

• 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, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Ceredigion Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Ceredigion's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Ceredigion Penfro