THAMES FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1088012 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant making trust

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Latest income

£368k

Latest spending

£218k

Registered

2001

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £149,719 for the year, bringing unrestricted reserves to £2,027,542. The trustees confirm that these results secure the charity's immediate future for the next 12 to 18 months. The organization operates on a voluntary basis with no paid staff or trading subsidiaries.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Total income

£546k

Total spending

£246k

Reserves (reported)

£1.7m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~85.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Dr Maria del Carmen Vida Navarrochair
Dr Anne Williams
Dr OLUBUSOLA DA SILVA
Helen Shaw

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£368k	£218k
31/12/2023	£334k	£203k
31/12/2022	£546k	£246k
31/12/2021	£414k	£179k
31/12/2020	£169k	£60k

Common questions

Is THAMES FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £149,719 for the year, bringing unrestricted reserves to £2,027,542. The trustees confirm that these results secure the charity's immediate future for the next 12 to 18 months. The organization operates on a voluntary basis with no paid staff or trading subsidiaries. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE JAGCLIF CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£4.1m
The Ashley Tabor-King Foundation	1	£1.4m
PETER DUBENS FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	£200k
THE CADOGAN CHARITY	1	£100k
THE VEOLIA ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST	1	£70k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JOHN THAW FOUNDATION.

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THAMES FOUNDATION	£368k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE JOHN THAW FOUNDATION FY2026	£180k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THAMES CHASE TRUST FY2025	£1.5m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
STEPHEN TAYLOR FOUNDATION FY2025	£61.1m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HARDY FOUNDATION FY2024	£2.8m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BANHAM FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2025	£286k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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