NORFOLK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1110817 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NCF, NORFOLK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED

OUR CORE WORK IS TO MANAGE DONOR FUNDS FROM INDIVIDUALS, COMPANIES AND CHARITABLE TRUSTS AND TO PROVIDE SMALL LOCAL VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS WITH GRANTS, ADVICE, SIGNPOSTING, GUIDANCE AND SUPPORT. ON A SMALLER SCALE WE ALSO MANAGE FUNDS THAT AWARD GRANTS TO SUPPORT BURSARIES AND APPRENTICESHIPS.

Objects

(1) THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK AND ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS;(2) OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE DIRECTORS BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF NORFOLK AND ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD.

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 · 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

Registered contact address: Norwich, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds stood at £33.2 million at year-end, comprising £948k in unrestricted funds, £3.3 million in restricted funds, and £28.9 million in endowment funds. The charity reported a net movement in funds of a surplus of £95k for the year, driven by strong investment performance and donor confidence. The Trustees confirm that free reserves of £948k are above the stated policy target of £637k, indicating adequate resources to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Larking Gowen LLP. Discloses 4 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
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05234236

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Norfolk Community Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• JOYNER, Peter — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• SCOTT, Catherine Susanne Judith — director, appointed 23/09/2024on trustee list
• SETHIA, Krishna Kumar, Professor — director, appointed 23/09/2024on trustee list
• SERGENT, George Fiona Verity — director, appointed 23/09/2024on trustee list
• SAVORY, Edward James Doggett — director, appointed 04/01/2024on trustee list
• BURDETT, Tom — director, appointed 04/12/2023on trustee list
• MIDDLETON, Jessica — director, appointed 22/03/2021on trustee list
• MCDIARMID, Fiona Jane — director, appointed 22/03/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fiona McDiarmidchair
• Catherine Scott
• Edward James Doggett Savory
• George Sergent
• Jessica Middleton
• Peter Joyner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Krishna Sethia
• Tom Burdett

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire · Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY ACTION NORFOLK.

• COMMUNITY ACTION NORFOLK income £559k
• NORFOLK COALITION OF DISABLED PEOPLE income £1.4m
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.7m
• COMMUNITY CHAPLAINCY - NORFOLK income £72k
• SUFFOLK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £6.8m
• DORSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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