THE BORROW FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1060308 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q50037351 · also known as BORROW DENTAL MILK FOUNDATION

The Borrow Foundation is a grant making organisation, committed to the improvement of oral health, primarily in children, through the prevention of oral diseases. The work we support reaches many parts of the world, with the focus being firmly on population oral health and the need to reduce inequalities, within and between countries.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OF ORAL DISEASE AND THE PROMOTION OF ORAL HEALTH AND OF ORAL HEALTH EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Havant, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased significantly to £49,178,514, driven largely by a £25.1 million gain from the disposal of fixed assets. The charity maintains a reserves policy targeting free reserves between £nil and £300,000, though actual unrestricted funds substantially exceed this target. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 5 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
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• WHO Western Pacific and The Borrow Foundation strengthen partnership to address the burden of oral diseases in the Region who.int · 19/05/2026
• Borrow Foundation Grants for Child Oral Health Implementation Research (UK) www2.fundsforngos.org · 11/08/2025
• Borrow Foundation Grants for Child Oral Health Implementation Research (UK) www2.fundsforngos.org · 11/08/2025
• BASCD Borrow Foundation Early Career Poster Award winners focused on the Wikipedia Collaboration of Dental Schools cochrane.org · 23/12/2019

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: BORROW INVESTMENTS LIMITED Companies House 00671291
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03303900

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Andrew Rugg-Gunn — Chair (source)
• Professor Lorna Macpherson — Trustee (source)
• Professor Tim Newton — Trustee (source)
• Professor Jukka Meurman — Trustee (source)
• Mr Nigel Borrow — Trustee (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MEURMAN, Jukka Heikki, Professor — director, appointed 29/02/2024on trustee list
• NEWTON, Jonathon Timothy, Professor — director, appointed 07/06/2023on trustee list
• MACPHERSON, Lorna Margaret Davidson, Professor — director, appointed 29/03/2023on trustee list
• RUGG GUNN, Andrew John, Professor — director, appointed 11/03/2003on trustee list
• BORROW, Nigel Frederick — director, appointed 17/01/1997on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 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 (46 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~157.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (93% 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: 2.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PROFESSOR ANDREW JOHN RUGG-GUNNchair
• Nigel Borrow
• Professor Jonathon Timothy Newton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Jukka Heikki Meurman
• Professor Lorna Margaret Davidson Macpherson

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

Operates in: Australia · Burma · Cambodia · Chile · Leeds City · Lithuania · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Russia · Sweden · Thailand · Vietnam

Income and spending

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• THE BORNE FOUNDATION income £1.7m
• ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION income £985k

Side by side with its peers

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