PAUL SMITH'S FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1065751 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PAUL SMITH FOUNDATION

Inactive during the year to 30/06/14

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves totalled £217,073 at year-end, which the trustees consider sufficient to fund the grant programme and cover unplanned expenditure. The charity reported a net loss of £2,110,544 for the year, primarily driven by a £2,305,668 loss on investments, resulting in total unrestricted funds decreasing to £17,128,683.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03346635

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.

• CARSON, Christopher Edward — director, appointed 14/04/2026on trustee list
• FINDLAY, Mary Sancroft — director, appointed 14/04/2026on trustee list
• STURDY, Heather Louise — director, appointed 14/04/2026on trustee list
• MONK, Toby Matthew Rhet — director, appointed 12/03/2026on trustee list
• BAKER, Sean Graham — director, appointed 04/05/2020on trustee list
• SMITH, Paul Brierley, Sir — director, appointed 07/04/1997on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £980k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ben Parker
• Christopher Edward Carson
• Heather Louise Sturdy
• Mary Sancroft Findlay
• SEAN GRAHAM BAKER
• SIR PAUL SMITH
• Toby Matthew Rhet Monk

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST PAUL'S SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.

• ST PAUL'S SCHOOLS FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• THE KATHLEEN SMITH FOUNDATION income £103k
• THE MARTIN SMITH FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• THE WILBUR AND NISO SMITH FOUNDATION income £160k
• THE BARBOUR FOUNDATION income £2.6m
• RCCG SURE FOUNDATION ASSEMBLY income £213k

Side by side with its peers

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