HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1100417 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our Mission is to increase the charitable funding that is available to voluntary organisations and community groups active in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We provide efficient donor and grant making services, which are open, accessible, and user friendly. We build a bridge between people who care about their local community and the wide range of voluntary and community groups needing help.

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £325,365 at the end of 2024, which the Trustees consider to be within their newly agreed policy range of £236,000 to £352,000. The charity reported a net deficit on unrestricted funds of £389,628 for the year, primarily due to core costs exceeding core income, but maintains a strong endowment base of £15.8 million. The Trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Morris Crocker. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2023) to "within" (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04534462

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.

• COOPER, Margaret Rachel — director, appointed 13/06/2025not on trustee list
• RIVIERE, Amelia Sophie — director, appointed 13/06/2025not on trustee list
• STANLEY, Oliver Hugh — director, appointed 07/06/2024on trustee list
• HENSMAN, Joshua — director, appointed 08/06/2023on trustee list
• CHEYNEY, Grace Suzanne Isabel — director, appointed 08/06/2023on trustee list
• WOOD, Robert Michael — director, appointed 08/06/2023on trustee list
• SMITH, Michael John Campbell — director, appointed 25/09/2019on trustee list
• BUTWILOWSKA, Krysia Stefania — director, appointed 16/11/2018on trustee list
• PUTTY, Hansrode — director, appointed 26/07/2017not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (57% 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: 12.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/02/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amelia Sophie Riviere DL
• Grace Cheyney
• Joshua Hensman
• Kirsty ROWLINSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Krysia Butwilowska
• Margaret Rachel Cooper FCA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mx Lucy Tennant
• Nicholas Adams-King
• Oliver Stanley
• Robert Wood
• Vanessa Shahani

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Isle Of Wight · Portsmouth City · Southampton City

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 ISLE OF WIGHT FOUNDATION.

• ISLE OF WIGHT FOUNDATION income £104k
• DORSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.6m
• COMMUNITY ACTION ISLE OF WIGHT income £2.0m
• HERTFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £10.7m
• THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £3.6m
• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WILTSHIRE & SWINDON income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

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