THE BUFFINI CHAO FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1111022 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

For such charitable purposes as the trustees in their absolute discretion think fit. The core aim of the Foundation however is to support children and young people through education and training.

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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 · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total funds of £15,662,102, comprising an expendable endowment fund and unrestricted general funds. The trustees maintain a reserves policy target of £10,000,000, and the liquid assets at year-end were £1,355,797. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ward Williams. 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
• 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
• 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~145.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claudia Buffini
• Grace Chan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karen Platt
• LADY BUFFINI · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIR DAMON MARCUS BUFFINI · trustee of 2 other charities
• SUE JANE GUTIERREZ

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FULHAM BOYS SCHOOL FOUNDATION CIO.

• THE FULHAM BOYS SCHOOL FOUNDATION CIO income £851k
• TUCO FOUNDATION CIO income £734k
• THE CH FOUNDATION (UK) income £119.3m
• THE CHILDHOOD TRUST income £3.3m
• THE CHAILEY CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT income £33k
• BRITISH FASHION COUNCIL FOUNDATION income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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