NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1055254 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1129907 · Wikipedia

nef aims to maximise well-being and social justice within environmental limits through innovative economic thinking and practical solutions. Our work involves pilot projects, in-depth research, campaigning, and informing policy.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND UNDERTAKE RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC (AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH), PARTICULARLY IN ECONOMICS, CITIZENSHIP AND ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES(B) TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY (I) THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES, (II) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES AND (III) PURSUING SUCH OTHER RELATED CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £410,853 were below the stated policy target of £538,000, a shortfall the trustees attribute to the withdrawal of longstanding funders and subsequent restructuring. Despite this, the charity holds significant non-operational assets, including property valued at £2.31m, and maintains cash reserves of £2.32m, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet liabilities as they fall due.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. 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
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). 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 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 3.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADAM SHARPLESchair
• Anna Henry
• Ben Michael Pringle
• Halla GUNNARSDOTTIR
• Martin Koehring
• Nicholas Dearden
• Pascale Frazer-Carroll
• Richard Bryars
• Tariq Kazi
• Wing-Harn Chen

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDERS NETWORK.

• ENVIRONMENTAL FUNDERS NETWORK income £798k
• NORTHCLIFFE ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERPRISES TEAM income £728k
• NEW SPRINGS UK income £621k
• THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH income £3.3m
• NEO COMMUNITY income £869k
• NEWLEAF FOUNDATION income £103k

Side by side with its peers

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