CHK Foundation

Registered charity 1050900 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHK CHARITIES LIMITED

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the financial statements give a true and fair view of the charitable company's affairs and have been prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice. The independent auditors concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the company's ability to continue operations for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Edward Peake — Chairman (source)
• Jane Hamilton — Executive Director (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 21.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Edward Peakechair
• Camilla Peake · trustee of 2 other charities
• Charles Kirwan-Taylor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elisalex Jewell
• LUCY HENRIETTA MORRIS · trustee of 1 other charity
• MRS KATHARINE SOPHIE LOYD
• Pandora Morris
• RUPERT PREST

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 HUMAN PRACTICE FOUNDATION UK.

• HUMAN PRACTICE FOUNDATION UK income £184k
• The Green Room Foundation Ltd income £4.0m
• UKH FOUNDATION income £119k
• THE T.K. MAXX AND HOMESENSE FOUNDATION income £490k
• The Considered Ask Foundation income £1.5m
• A ROCHA UK income £921k

Side by side with its peers

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