Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

THE SOUTH LONDON BOTANICAL INSTITUTE 

The Institute - Library, Herbarium & Garden - are open weekly to members & the public. We run botanical courses for adults, workshops for children & one-off lectures & field trips. We have a series of open days/evenings & occassional other events. We participate in local environmental, ecological & botanical events.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 61 years
(112 years as a company)

www.slbi.org.uk

info@slbi.org.uk

0208 674 5787

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£109£184£-76n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/03/22£180£154£26n/an/an/an/an/a29
31/03/21£207£149£58n/an/an/an/an/a24
31/03/20£143£139£5n/an/an/an/an/a38
31/03/19£92£149£-57n/an/an/an/an/a76
31/03/18£147£181£-34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£62£97£-35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£164£117£47£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£47£122£-75£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14*£154£73£81£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£99£104£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£55£53£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£55£68£-13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£45£73£-27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£54£79£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£31£43£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£37£40£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£37£36£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£25£35£-10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£33£26£7£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Who works here?
  • 40 volunteers
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
City Bridge Trust£66,200
DCMS£19,700
National Lottery Heritage Fund£18,300
National Lottery Community Fund£9,910
Garfield Weston Foundation£7,500
Co-Operative Group£4,845
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Connecting Communities through Food Plants
£9,910 29/09/2022
The funding will be used to deliver food growing educational sessions for low income families. The project aims to provide people with the skills and learning to create low-cost healthy meals and ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to South London Botanical Institute
£5,000 12/01/2022
£5,000 to fund accessibility training and an access audit to inform the SLBI’s plans to improve accessibility to enable a wider number of people to access the benefits of botanical education ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to South London Botanical Institute
£2,266 23/10/2021
We want to run school visits and holiday activities with children, inspiring them about the importance and excitement of plants, using our community-based botanic garden and other unique resources.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 01/04/2021
South London Botanical Institute
DCMS - CRF21: South London Botanical Institute
£19,700 08/03/2021
Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage 2020-21
Co-Operative Group - Grant to South London Botanical Institute
£2,580 24/10/2020
Using resources such as our botanic garden to run school visits and holiday activities for children will inspire them to learn about plants.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to South London Botanical Institute
£18,300 20/07/2020
Covid-19: South London Botanical Institute
City Bridge Trust - Grant to South London Botanical Institute
£5,500 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £5,500, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation’s current grant.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to South London Botanical Institute
£55,700 12/11/2019
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£55,700 over two further and final years (£27,800, £27,900) towards the salary of a part time Education and Outreach Co-ordinator (14hpw) and part-time Project Manager (7hpw) and running costs of ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to South London Botanical Institute
£86,500 29/03/2019
Botanical Education: Thriving and Sustainable (BEST)
City Bridge Trust - Grant to South London Botanical Institute
£76,500 14/07/2016
36
£76,500 over three years (£26,800; £27,700; £22,000) towards the salary of a part-time Education and Outreach Coordinator and part-time Project Manager and running costs of Botany on the Plate ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to South London Botanical Institute
£99,600 03/02/2016
Plant recording for all ages
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to South London Botanical Institute
£100,000 08/01/2014
Living History - Sharing our botanical historical heritage
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to South London Botanical Institute
£25,577 06/11/2012
Towards the salary and project costs involved with developing a moss trail in an urban setting and its associated educational outreach programmes.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 33-78
  • PAUL BODLEY Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Communications Agency Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/01/1963, number: 214251
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/07/1911, number: 00116643
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR14: 10 days late, AR10: 132 days late, AR09: 1 days late, AR05: 11 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

South London Botanical Institute
323 Norwood Road
LONDON
SE24 9AQ

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND FACILITATE THE STUDY OF THE SCIENCE OF BOTANY AND RELATED SCIENCES AND THEIR PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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