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.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves stood at £3,671,705, with a net asset position of £5,544,337. The charity reported a negligible net deficit of £409 for the year, supported by strong cash reserves of £971,014. The trustees confirmed that the going concern assumption is appropriate based on income forecasts and property holdings.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 7.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (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.

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 VALLEY COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE.

• AMBER VALLEY COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.2m
• AMT FOUNDATION LIMITED income £152k
• AMY WINEHOUSE FOUNDATION income £1.0m
• AMBER PRESCHOOL income £103k
• THE AMPNEY BROOK FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• THE JEWEL FOUNDATION income £152k

Side by side with its peers

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