ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS

Registered charity 1105412 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q30267854

A membership association which supports the work of foundations and independent grant-making trusts in the UK

Objects

TO FURTHER THE WORK OF CHARITABLE GRANT MAKING TRUSTS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:-(A) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH TRUSTS AND INSTITUTIONS AND CARRYING OUT RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH;(B) PROMOTING THE COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL EFFECTIVENESS OF SUCH TRUSTS AND INSTITUTIONS AND BETTER METHODS OF ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THEIR RESOURCES..

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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

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Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity closed the year with an unrestricted deficit of £96,702, though this was significantly smaller than the budgeted deficit due to underspending and deferred costs. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £667,144, which the trustees consider to be comfortably within their target range of four to six months' operating expenditure. The trustees and auditor confirm that the organization is a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. 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 handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Carol Mack — Chief Executive (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (77% 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

• Karen Everettchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Anand Shukla · trustee of 1 other charity
• Baroness Shaista Gohir · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Daniela Marie Imogen LLOYD-WILLIAMS
• Hannan Ali
• John Hollingsworth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathon Hugh Christopher Saxton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Louise Pauline Winterburn
• Rachael Badger
• Rachel Sarah CAMPBELL
• Rahima Do Nascimento Aziz BEM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robin Moray Melvin McConnachie
• Roisin Wood
• Rosario Guimba-Stewart
• Tania Yu Ling Cheung

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 THE ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS.

• THE ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS income £161k
• GRAFF FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• PROWTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £140k
• FULL FACT income £3.1m
• THE CONCERT ARTISTES ASSOCIATION BENEVOLENT FUND income £29k
• The Trust Foundation income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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