ANNE FRANK TRUST UK

Registered charity 1003279 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q59536124 · also known as ANNE FRANK EDUCATIONAL TRUST UK, THE ANNE FRANK TRUST UK · also registered in Scotland as SC040488 (OSCR)

Learning from Anne Frank and the Holocaust, we empower young people aged 9 to 15 to challenge all forms of prejudice.

Objects

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE IN THE PRINCIPLES OF RELIGIOUS AND RACIAL TOLERANCE AND OF DEMOCRACY AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE LIFE AND DIARY OF ANNE FRANK.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a deficit of £55,853, driven by increased investment in fundraising activities. Despite this, the trustees report a stable financial position, noting that unrestricted reserves of £483,362 remain within the stated policy range of three to six months of core operating costs.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Blick Rothenberg Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Anne Frank Trust UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dan Green — Chief Executive (source)
• Nicola Cobbold — Chair (source)
• Bernard Howard — Vice Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Anne Frank Fonds — “We are grateful for the support of the Anne Frank Fonds in Basel, Switzerland. Founded by Anne’s father Otto, the Fonds (or foundation) is r…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (82% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 30.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BERNARD HOWARD
• Borge Andreassen
• EMMA LOUISE HAYMAN
• Fayga Brisman-Taylor
• Mike Bettles
• Miranda Wayland
• Nicola Jane Wade
• Nicola Josephine Cobbold
• Ruth Leah Fenton
• Stacey Jane Stewart

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ANN CRAFT TRUST.

• THE ANN CRAFT TRUST income £862k
• THE FRANK BOND TRUST LIMITED income £26k
• KIDS TRUST income £57k
• YOUNG MINDS TRUST income £7.9m
• CHILDREN ON THE EDGE income £1.9m
• THETFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION TRUST income £79k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.