ESPERANZA TRUST FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Registered charity 1063939 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The income of the Fund is applied to promoting the study and teaching of anthropology. The policy of the Trustees is to devote about half its net income to subsidising exceptional expenditure of the Royal Anthropological Institute. The other half is devoted to an annual research fellowship scheme in association with a UK or Ireland university, known as 'Leach/RAI Fellowships'.

Objects

PROMOTING AND ENCOURAGING THE STUDY AND TEACHING OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH BY WHATEVER MEANS AND WHATEVER CONDITIONS AS THE MANAGING TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total net assets of £2,677,987, comprising a capital endowment fund of £2,379,759 and a restricted research grant fund of £298,228. The trustees confirm the charity has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £129,173 for the year ended 31 December 2024.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Friend-James Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Jon Mitchellchair
• Professor SARAH GREEN
• Rebecca Cassidy

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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