THE INNOCENT FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1104289 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The purpose of the foundation is to help the world's hungry, through funding projects to meet two goals: stopping children dying of hunger and helping the poorest families to feed themselves.

Objects

TO ADVANCE ALL PURPOSES CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves increased to £2,449,209, with £2,104,204 classified as uncommitted reserves. The trustees confirm that these funds meet the charity's stated reserves policy, which requires covering committed expenditure plus wind-down costs. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young. 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• New funding from the innocent foundation actionagainsthunger.org.uk · 22/12/2020

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05054312

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.

• SEGURA JURADO, Fabio Mauricio — director, appointed 14/10/2026not on trustee list
• STOREY, Andrew Phillip — director, appointed 13/10/2026not on trustee list
• CANNEY, Nicholas Milton — director, appointed 04/07/2022on trustee list
• BALON, Adam Richard — director, appointed 24/02/2004on trustee list
• REED, Richard John — director, appointed 24/02/2004on trustee list
• WRIGHT, Jonathan Carlton Langley — director, appointed 24/02/2004on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~34.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (94% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADAM BALON · trustee of 1 other charity
• JONATHAN WRIGHT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Milton Canney
• RICHARD REED · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Congo (Democratic Republic) · Guatemala · Kenya · Madagascar · Malawi · Mali · Mozambique · Nepal · Nigeria · Rwanda · Senegal · Sierra Leone

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• FOOD FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• FAITH UP income £186k
• FEEDING FAMILIES income £913k
• FOUNTAIN OF PEACE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION UK income £272k
• WESTCOMBE FOUNDATION income £251k
• FOUNDATION MATTERS income £366k

Side by side with its peers

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