01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC038951
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Cross Border
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- UK and overseas
- Volunteers
- Not supplied
- Staff
- 99
- Postcode
- SP1 2AP
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Beneficiaries
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
(a) to promote and undertake for the public benefit the conservation of plants and their habitats. b) to educate the public so as to increase their knowledge, understanding and appreciations of plants, and their awareness of the value of plants and the need for plant conservation. (c) to promote and undertake for the public benefit the establishment and maintenance of places of botanical interest for the cultivation and preservation of plants. (d) to promote, organise and undertake study and research in the principles and practice of the conservation of plants and their uses provided that all the useful results of such research shall be published. (e) to promote such other charitable objects or charitable purposes which are conducive to the aforesaid objects as the Board may from time to time in its discretion determine.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £8,112,649 | £7,674,704 | 99 | 12 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £11,338,416 | £9,146,435 | 99 | 21 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £5,509,920 | £4,962,186 | 99 | 12 December 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £4,476,733 | £4,312,234 | 99 | 12 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £4,126,979 | £3,095,590 | 99 | 6 December 2021 |
Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.
04 Contact record
Principal office or trustees address
- Address supplied to OSCR
- Brewery House, 36 Milford Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.plantlife.org.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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