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Company description
ANNALS OF BOTANY COMPANY is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)”. Incorporated on 13 July 1903; registered for 123 years; registered office reported in ABERYSTWYTH, CEREDIGION, WALES. Its primary declared activity is 58141 · Publishing of learned journals.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 8 PSC records, 1 charity record. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- ANNALS OF BOTANY COMPANY
- Company number
- 00078001
- Company type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- SMALL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2025Next accounts due
30 September 2027Last statement made up to
1 August 2025Next statement due
15 August 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Professor Gail Taylor
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 4 June 2025
- Appointment Verification Statement Date: 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Statement Due On: 2026-08-15T00:00:00Z
Professor Iain Simon Donnison
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 4 June 2025
- Appointment Verification Statement Date: 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Statement Due On: 2026-08-15T00:00:00Z
Professor Philip Mark Gilmartin
- Has significant influence or control
- Has significant influence or control (as a firm)
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 15 December 2021
- Appointment Verification Statement Date: 2026-08-02T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Statement Due On: 2026-08-15T00:00:00Z
Dr Michael Barson Jackson
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 21 June 2017
- Ceased
- 10 October 2021
Dr David Frederick Cutler
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 22 June 2016
- Ceased
- 21 July 2017
Professor Hugh Gordon Dickinson
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 22 June 2016
- Ceased
- 4 June 2025
Professor Roderick Hunt
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- England
- Notified
- 22 June 2016
- Ceased
- 1 August 2018
Professor Roderick Hunt
- Has significant influence or control
- Nationality
- British
- Country of residence
- United Kingdom
- Notified
- 22 June 2016
- Ceased
- 4 June 2025
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
04 Charity register
Charity Commission links
THE ANNALS OF BOTANY COMPANY
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 22 December 1964
- Latest income
- £578,216
- Latest expenditure
- £585,291
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Provides Services
- The General Public/mankind
- Education/training
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.
Source details and official record →This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
05 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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06 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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07 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
08 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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09 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
10 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
1 exact company-number link.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
11 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
12 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.