READING REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1092627 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advancement of education in the art and science of Real Estate at the University of ReadingProviding financial assistance to students in needWidening access to the real estate professionOffering activities to further learning and the employability of students and graduatesRaising fundsSharing expertise and best practiceRaising awareness of the School of Real Estate and Planning

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF REAL ESTATE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF READING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GRANTS

Area of benefit: READING

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

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net loss of £262,307 for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in total reserves of £1,014,974. The trustees have adopted a reserves policy target of twelve months of committed costs, and the current unrestricted reserves of £283,493 are below this stated policy target. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars. Discloses 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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: 4.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Michael Miskellchair
• Angelique Chettiparambil Rajan
• Ben Ingram
• Catherine Webster
• Christopher William Piers Staveley
• Eamonn D'Arcy
• James Trevor Walker
• Katherine Susanna Norton
• Kleio Akrivou
• Patrick James Allen
• Richard Bartlett Tranter
• Russell Paul Jewell
• Samantha Su-Mei Kempe
• VIRGINIA GIBSON

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with READING EDUCATION TRUST.

• READING EDUCATION TRUST income £1.1m
• Property Research Trust Limited income £93k
• LUTHER KING HOUSE EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £1.5m
• THE REED EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £2.0m
• READING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION income £5.6m
• READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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