SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1079538 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity has identified two focus areas through which it aims to drive social impact. Helping people experiencing hardship and/or underserved groups to access a place to call home and improve financial wellbeing. The trustees will select charities based on their alignment with one or both focus areas.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £271,500, which are available for future expenditure. The Trustees consider the charity to have adequate financial resources to continue fulfilling its purpose, supported by an approved annual donation of £477,881 for the 2025/26 financial year. The charity's reserves policy is to distribute all funds subject to suitable requests, aiming to reduce undistributed reserves to £10,000, though the current level of £271,500 is significantly above this target.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Skipton Building Society — “Skipton Building Society makes an annual payment to the Charitable Foundation to fund these donations.” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/02/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clare N Gardner
• GILES RICHARD BOWRING · trustee of 3 other charities
• Graham Hamilton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Gregory Mark Bell
• John Cleland · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Sanchez
• Robert James Hickson
• Shagufta Sharif · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

Common questions

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 B&Q Foundation.

• B&Q Foundation income £2.8m
• SKIPTON STEP INTO ACTION income £185k
• LEEDS BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £534k
• THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON TRUST income £181k
• YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £665k
• AL-FALAH SOCIETY (ESSAR) income £118k

Side by side with its peers

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