THE AMBER FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1051388 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AMBER

Amber provides relief of young persons, particularly those who are unemployed and/or homeless, by providing opportunities and facilities for training and experience of all kinds to enable such persons to decide upon, qualify for or obtain a job, career or position.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF YOUNG PERSONS, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED, BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES AND FACILITIES FOR TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE OF ALL KINDS TO ENABLE SUCH PERSONS TO DECIDE UPON, QUALIFY FOR OR OBTAIN ANY JOB, CAREER OR POSITION.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mid Devon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £49,868 for the year ended 30 April 2026, with total income rising to £3.83 million. Unrestricted reserves stood at £3.84 million, providing a buffer against donation fluctuations, while the charity holds freehold property with minimal lease liabilities.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2025) to £110,001 - £120,000 (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• 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 — Amber (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Barty Smith OBE — 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £1.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 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 (52% 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: 8.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARTHOLOMEW SMITHchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Charles Patrick John Daniel
• LUCY MORRIS · trustee of 1 other charity
• PENELOPE MARY MARLAND
• RICHARD JOHN OLDFIELD · trustee of 2 other charities
• Stephen Charles Lyall
• The Honorable Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames

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

Operates in: Devon · Kent · Surrey · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• RICHARD JOHN OLDFIELD — trustee here and at THE CHRISTOPHER AND HENRY OLDFIELD TRUST

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 AMBER TRAINING, ADVISORY & SUPPORT SERVICES.

• AMBER TRAINING, ADVISORY & SUPPORT SERVICES income £90k
• THE AMBER TRUST income £316k
• THE AMAR INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• ALABRAR FOUNDATION income £52k
• JEREMY ALEXANDER SETTLEMENT income £100k
• ALBERR income £527k

Side by side with its peers

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