THE ANCHOR FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1082485 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC039258 (OSCR)

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Objects

FOR SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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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Registered contact address: Perth and Kinross, Scotland (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted funds of £8,890,042, comprising capital funds of £8,841,931 and revenue funds of £48,111. The trustees report that the charity meets the definition of a public benefit entity and considers there to be no material uncertainties about its ability to continue as a going concern. The charity generated £221,584 in investment income and expended £361,958 on charitable activities, governance, and fund generation costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dickson Middleton. 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.

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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04057661

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.

• MAYFIELD, Susan Patricia — director, appointed 19/04/2013not on trustee list
• STEWART, Nina — director, appointed 01/11/2007on trustee list
• ANKER-PETERSEN, Robert Brian, Reverend — director, appointed 23/10/2001on trustee list
• MITTON, Michael Simon, Reverend — director, appointed 17/08/2000on trustee list
• MCPHERSON, Heather Anne — secretary, appointed 01/02/2021

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NINA CATHERINE STEWART
• Rev ROBIN BRIAN ANKER-PETERSEN
• Sue Mayfield
• THE REVEREND CANON MICHAEL SIMON MITTON

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ANCHOR SOCIETY LTD.

• THE ANCHOR SOCIETY LTD income £115k
• ANCHOR CHURCH income £73k
• ANCHOR CITY CHURCH INTERNATIONAL income £157k
• THE ANDOR CHARITABLE TRUST income £72k
• THE ANBER FUND income £38k
• THE ARC income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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