THE JAMES TUDOR FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1105916 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The James Tudor Foundation is a grant-awarding charity with a principal object of the relief of sickness.The Foundation operates without geographic limitation but solely through UK registered charities.

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

Latest income

£977k

Latest spending

£1.5m

Registered

2004

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is funded by an expendable endowment with a portfolio value of £38,221,224, generating total income of £976,702. Total charitable and governance expenditure was £1,476,918, resulting in a net movement in funds of £3,116,844 driven by investment gains. The trustees report that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of governance and support costs (held: £896k)

“The Trustees, therefore, do not aim to maintain a minimum level of unrestricted reserves but require the holding of sufficient cash or highly liquid investments which equate to at least three months' governance and support costs” — page 21

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Total income

£977k

Total spending

£1.5m

Cost of raising funds

£81k

Reserves (reported)

£1.3m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~10.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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: 8.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

ANNE FELICITY MCPHERSON
CEDRIC BRANSDEN NASH
David Arthur Vernon
Fiona Gillian Birchenough FCA
LINDA ANNE HOOPER · trustee of 1 other charity
STEPHANIE KATHERINE WREN

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/09/2025	£977k	£1.5m
30/09/2024	£973k	£1.2m
30/09/2023	£921k	£1.1m
30/09/2022	£962k	£996k
30/09/2021	£866k	£830k

Common questions

Is THE JAMES TUDOR FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity is funded by an expendable endowment with a portfolio value of £38,221,224, generating total income of £976,702. Total charitable and governance expenditure was £1,476,918, resulting in a net movement in funds of £3,116,844 driven by investment gains. The trustees report that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Godfrey Wilson Ltd.

Who funds THE JAMES TUDOR FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE JAMES TUDOR FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include The Leprosy Mission Great Britain, HAEMOCHROMATOSIS UK.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
The Leprosy Mission Great Britain	FY2022	£288k	Grant towards research and innovation (intended within grants table)
The Leprosy Mission Great Britain	FY2022	£248k	Grant towards research and innovation
The Leprosy Mission Great Britain	FY2022	£43k	Grant towards research and innovation (intended within grants table)
HAEMOCHROMATOSIS UK	FY2022	£30k
The Leprosy Mission Great Britain	FY2022	£25k	Grant towards research and innovation (intended within grants table)
The Leprosy Mission Great Britain	FY2022	£20k	Grant towards research and innovation (intended within grants table)
The Leprosy Mission Great Britain	FY2022	£20k	Grant towards research and innovation (intended within grants table)

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 NEIGHBOURLY FOUNDATION	1	£1.3m
THE PENNIES FOUNDATION	1	£596k
UNSEEN (UK)	1	£5k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST CATHERINE'S, WAKEFIELD	1	£5k

Charities like this

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

THE TUDOR TRUST income £8.5m
THE MARTIN JAMES FOUNDATION income £87.8m
THE JAMES PANTYFEDWEN FOUNDATION (YMDDIRIEDOLAETH JAMES PANTYFEDWEN) income £623k
THE JD FOUNDATION income £2.5m
JAMES PERCY FOUNDATION income £836k
THE EDWARD JAMES FOUNDATION LIMITED income £15.1m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE JAMES TUDOR FOUNDATION	£977k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE TUDOR TRUST FY2025	£8.5m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE MARTIN JAMES FOUNDATION FY2025	£87.8m	£110,001 - £120,000	—	below	—	no doubt
THE JAMES PANTYFEDWEN FOUNDATION (YMDDIRIEDOLAETH JAMES PANTYFEDWEN) FY2025	£623k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE JD FOUNDATION FY2025	£2.5m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
JAMES PERCY FOUNDATION FY2024	£836k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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