BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1073861 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEART OF BUCKS, THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE FOUNDATION

Buckinghamshire Community Foundation acts as a conduit, connecting the charitable donations of private, business, trust and public sector donors with not for profit community groups and individuals in crisis. We do this through a wide ranging programme of grant making, principally in Buckinghamshire, but with some broader programmes.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S CHARITABLE PURPOSES (‘PURPOSES’ IN THIS DOCUMENT), ALSO IT’S OBJECTS FOR THE PURPOSES OF COMPANY LAW, ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:TO PROMOTE OR ADVANCE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COUNTY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE OR OTHER SUCH REGIONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AS MAY BE BENEFITED BY A FUND MANAGED BY THE CHARITY, AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE FOREGOING):• THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY.• THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION.• THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH OR THE SAVING OF LIVES. THIS INCLUDES THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF SICKNESS, DISEASE OR HUMAN SUFFERING.• THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. THIS CAN INCLUDE RURAL OR URBAN REGENERATION AND THE PROMOTION OF CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY, VOLUNTEERING, THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR OR THE EFFECTIVENESS OR EFFICIENCY OF CHARITIES.• THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS, CULTURE, HERITAGE OR SCIENCE.• THE ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR SPORT. THIS CAN INCLUDE SPORT OR GAMES WHICH PROMOTE HEALTH BY INVOLVING PHYSICAL OR MENTAL SKILL OR EXERTION.• THE ADVANCEMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS, CONFLICT RESOLUTION OR RECONCILIATION OR THE PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS OR RACIAL HARMONY OR EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.• THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR IMPROVEMENT.• THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE. THIS CAN INCLUDE RELIEF GIVEN BY THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION OR CARE TO THE RELEVANT PERSONS.• THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN, OR OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE POLICE, FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES OR AMBULANCE SERVICES.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE OR OTHER SUCH REGIONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased by £0.2 million to £3.0 million, with a general reserve of £202,000 held in line with the charity's policy to cover three months of administration costs. Total funds at year-end were £14.8 million, comprising £12.0 million in investments and £2.8 million in cash, predominantly restricted for grant making.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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.

• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Saffery — “Alongside fundraising for us and sponsoring our annual report , Saffery provide expert advice for our events.” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Moir Stewartchair
• Annalise Smith
• Annie Elinor Norfolk Beadle
• Derek Paul Lunt
• George Rupert Anson
• Kathryn Jane Hobbs
• Mark Bradbury
• Peter John Hollingsworth
• Philippa Jane Kirkbride
• Philippa Vaughan
• Robert Taylor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ruzina Akthar Awan

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 BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• MEDIATION BUCKINGHAMSHIRE income £189k
• UK COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS income £11.3m
• BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £4.3m
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £815k

Side by side with its peers

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