Eden Project: who owns it, who runs it and what the accounts show

Eden Project Limited is the charity group that runs the Eden Project in Cornwall, a visitor attraction and education centre built around giant plant-filled biomes. Its mission is to reconnect people with nature and inspire action for the planet, and it runs learning programmes and develops new Eden sites in the UK and abroad. Income comes from admission tickets and passes, events, food and drink, shops, donations and education.

In brief: environmental charity · biomes in Cornwall · tickets, events and learning

The Companies House register records Eden Project Group Limited as the person with significant control of Eden Project Limited, company number 03278093. Eden Project Group Limited is itself company number 14365908.

That places Eden Project Limited inside a larger group. Its accounts are group accounts, covering the companies it owns as well.

The Companies House register lists 3 current officers for Eden Project Limited.

Eden Project Limited reported turnover of £23m in the year to March 2026. That was down 1.5% on £23m the year before.

It reported 316 employees. The year before it reported 344.

It filed a pre-tax loss of £1.7m for the year, against a pre-tax loss of £4m the year before.

Staff costs came to £12m. That is an average of £37,000 a head. It ended the year with £1.7m at the bank and net assets of -£34m. It paid dividends of £0.1m.

Eden Project Limited has registered 24 charges at Companies House, of which 3 are still outstanding. A charge is security a lender takes over a company's assets; one is satisfied when the lending behind it is repaid or released.