FIA FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1088670 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FIA FOUNDATION FOR THE AUTOMOBILE AND SOCIETY

The FIA Foundation manages and supports an international programme of activities promoting road safety, environmental protection and sustainable mobility, as well as funding specialist motor sport safety research.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£9.5m

Latest spending

£20.8m

Registered

2001

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of €14,379,000 for the year, driven by a loss on investment assets and expenditure exceeding incoming resources. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at €469,772,000, though the charity noted a shortfall in preserving the capital base in real terms against inflation. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Investment income (100% of income)

“Investment income 10,928”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: preserve the capital base in real terms (held: £537.7m)

“The long-term objective of the Trustees is to “preserve the capital base in real terms for as long as is practicable whilst meeting the needs of the beneficiaries at a sustainable level”.” — page 21

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Governance: Charity Commission Statutory Enquiry

“On 22 January 2026 the Charity Commission opened a statutory inquiry into the Foundation under section 46 of the Charities Act 2011 as a result of its regulatory concerns that there was potentially significant risk to the Foundation’s assets.” — page 40

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Charity Commission inquiry

The Charity Commission opened a statutory inquiry into the FIA Foundation to investigate regulatory concerns raised regarding the charity's administration and governance. The regulator issued an immediate temporary protective Order to prevent the charity and its trustees from entering into certain transactions without prior written approval.

Per the Commission’s published report. Summary is automated; the official report is authoritative.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Mohammed Ben Sulayem — Chair (source)
H.E. Dr Amani Abou-Zeid — Trustee (source)
Abdulrahman Al-Mannai — Trustee (source)
Primož Koder — Trustee (source)
Amina Mohammed — Trustee (source)
Gorki Obando — Trustee (source)
Andrea Oliver — Trustee (source)
Elizabeth Perry AM — Trustee (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Electoral Commission register entries

Entries on the Electoral Commission’s public register where this charity (or its company) appears as the source — typically sponsorship of an APPG or an overseas visit provided to an MP, which charities may lawfully do. Shown with the Commission’s own reference; this is a transparency record, not an allegation.

Visit: Dan Carden (MP - Member of Parliament) — £4k · 12/07/2023 · New York and Washington · ref V0570553
As President of the Forum of Young Parliamentarians at the Inter-Parliamentary Union, to attend the United Nations High Level Political Forum and to meet with Members of the United States Senate and Congress

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income

£9.5m

Total spending

£20.8m

Cost of raising funds

£546k

Reserves (reported)

£409.7m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~236.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 5.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Mohammed ben Sulayemchair
Abdulrahman Al Mannai
Amina Chawahir Mohamed
Andrea Paola Oliver Venere
Bernard Ah Kong Tay
Carmelo Sanz de Barros
Christian Anton Roux
Elizabeth Perry
Gorki Obando
H.E. Dr Amani Abou-Zeid
Jan Stovicek
Primoz Koder

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

Operates in: Australia · Barnet · Bath And North East Somerset · Belgium · Botswana · Brazil · Canada · Chile · City Of Westminster · Colombia · France · Germany

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£9.5m	£20.8m
31/12/2024	£9.4m	£19.0m
31/12/2023	£9.5m	£19.3m
31/12/2022	£5.3m	£20.2m
31/12/2021	£4.7m	£17.6m

Common questions

Is FIA FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of €14,379,000 for the year, driven by a loss on investment assets and expenditure exceeding incoming resources. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at €469,772,000, though the charity noted a shortfall in preserving the capital base in real terms against inflation. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Azets Audit Services.

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 ROAD SAFETY TRUST	2	£535k
UBS UK Donor-Advised Foundation	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB FOUNDATION FOR MOTORING LIMITED.

ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB FOUNDATION FOR MOTORING LIMITED income £772k
ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION income £977k
THE INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED MOTORISTS LIMITED income £6.5m
THE ROAD SAFETY TRUST income £102.1m
GLOBAL NCAP income £5.8m
SAFER ROADS FOUNDATION income £87k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
FIA FOUNDATION	£9.5m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB FOUNDATION FOR MOTORING LIMITED FY2025	£772k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION FY2025	£977k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED MOTORISTS LIMITED FY2025	£6.5m	£160,001 - £170,000	—	above	—	no doubt
THE ROAD SAFETY TRUST FY2025	£102.1m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
GLOBAL NCAP FY2024	£5.8m	€150,001 - €160,000	3	above	—	no doubt

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