THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S AWARD

Registered charity 1072490 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC038254 (OSCR)

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Objects

TO CONTINUE TO FOSTER AND ADMINISTER, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN ARTICLE 2(2), A PROGRAMME OF AWARDS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN OUR UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE AND THEREBY, THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR CHARACTER, TO PROMOTE GOOD CITIZENSHIP FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with total reserves of £31.5m, a decrease of £1.5m from the previous year, driven by a budgeted operational deficit of £2.5m partially offset by investment gains. The trustees report that available free reserves of £14.3m remain within the stated policy range of £10m–£15m, which is designed to cover operational losses for two to three years. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The DofE (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% 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: 15.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Baroness Grey-Thompson DBEchair
• Anna Barker
• Emma Judith Sophia Watford
• HRH THE EARL OF WESSEX · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ofei Kwafo-Akoto
• Polly Williams
• Robert Andrew Shuter
• Roisin Helen Currie

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · 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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAMBRIDGESHIRE DOFE OPEN AWARD CENTRE.

• CAMBRIDGESHIRE DOFE OPEN AWARD CENTRE income £50k
• THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOUNDATION income £15.1m
• MEDWAY OPEN AWARD CENTRE income £49k
• TIMPERLEY DOFE AWARD CENTRE income £49k
• THETFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION TRUST income £79k
• DIANA AWARD income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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