THE FRESHFIELD FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1003316 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · filing overdue (register status)

The provision of grant funding to other charities with particular emphasis on those involved in the general fields of sustainable development, climate change mitigation and overseas disaster relief.

Objects

IN OR TOWARDS GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,066,210 and an expendable endowment fund of £33,563,597, resulting in total net assets of £34,629,807. The trustees report adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors. The charity generated a net movement in funds of £2,187,694, largely driven by investment gains, while incurring governance costs of £42,252.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Ltd. Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2023 (received 06/02/2024, 1 day after the 05/02/2024 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~20.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PATRICK APPLETON MOORESchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Burr Noland Carter
• ELIZABETH JANE POTTER
• PAUL CHARLES Kurthausen · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE FAIRFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST income £667k
• THE SEVERFIELD FOUNDATION income £88k
• THE FIREBIRD FOUNDATION income £1.6m
• THE RUFFORD FOUNDATION income £3.9m
• FILEY FOUNDATION LTD income £271k
• FAIRY WATER TRUST income £239k

Side by side with its peers

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