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.

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 total income reached £8.4 million, up from £6.8 million in the previous year, driven by a rise in restricted income for crisis response. Core unrestricted expenditure exceeded unrestricted income, resulting in a net deficit for the year, which was offset by transfers from endowment and restricted funds to produce a final year-end surplus. The charity maintains strong reserves and a stated policy to retain approximately six months of annual operating expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• 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.
• Received assets from another charity (08/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/02/2023) — 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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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.7m
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £815k
• DORSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.6m
• HEART OF ENGLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £13.6m
• HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £656k
• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR LEEDS income £4.5m

Side by side with its peers

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