THE DAVID WILSON FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1049047 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DAVID WILSON FOUNDATION

Funding charitable activities primarily in the Leicestershire area

Objects

SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISRECTION THINK FIT.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North West Leicestershire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that an independent audit was conducted by Nuvo Audit Limited for the year ended 5 April 2025. The auditor's report confirms the evaluation of the financial statements' fair presentation and communication of significant audit findings to those charged with governance. No specific financial health metrics or reserves figures are disclosed in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Nuvo Audit Limited. 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 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
• 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

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLIN VAUGHAN MCLEOD
• CRAIG JONATHAN SIMPSON
• JAMES DAVID WILSON
• LAURA ISOBEL WILSON
• RICHARD WILLIAM HENRY WILSON
• ROBERT EDWARD CHARLES WILSON
• SARAH ELIZABETH Wilson

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

Operates in: Leicestershire · Rutland

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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