COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SURREY

Registered charity 1111600 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCF, SURREY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The Community Foundation for Surrey is an independent charitable trust dedicated to inspiring local giving, providing philanthropy advice and building permanent community funds to improve the lives of people in Surrey. The Foundation awards grants throughout Surrey to support local community and voluntary groups who make a real difference to the quality of life in their communities.

Objects

4. The Charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are specifically restricted to the following:(1) the promotion of any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community in the County of Surrey 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 Trustees beneficial to the community including those in the area of benefit.

Area of benefit: SURREY, THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE.

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: Woking, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year ended 31 March 2025 was £4,642,000, with unrestricted reserves held at £474,000. This reserve level is above the charity's stated policy target of £175,000, which is defined as four months of the subsequent year's budgeted operating expenditure. The Trustees confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Alliotts 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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 05442921

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr. Beccy Bowden — Chief Executive (source)
• Neelam Devesher MBE DL — Chair (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.

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.

• BURKE, Judith Florence — director, appointed 30/03/2026not on trustee list
• DAWES, Nicola Ann — director, appointed 31/07/2025not on trustee list
• JESPERSEN, Erik Johan — director, appointed 31/07/2025on trustee list
• STEAD, David Charles — director, appointed 27/09/2024on trustee list
• BAILEY, Roshan — director, appointed 27/09/2024on trustee list
• NEWBERY, Tamalie Jane — director, appointed 27/09/2024on trustee list
• SANDERSON, Susan Elizabeth — director, appointed 27/09/2024on trustee list
• BROOKS, Nicholas Martin — director, appointed 17/03/2023on trustee list
• WHITTINGTON, Christina Diana Bridget — director, appointed 17/03/2023on trustee list
• DEVESHER, Neelam — director, appointed 01/07/2022not on trustee list
• DOWNES, Paul William Edwin — director, appointed 01/01/2019on trustee list
• BOWDEN, Rebecca Stanton Wain, Dr — secretary, appointed 01/07/2021

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/05/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/05/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Neelam Devesher MBE DLchair
• Christina Diana Bridget Whittington
• David Stead
• ERIK JOHAN JESPERSEN
• Judy Llewellyn-Burke
• Nicholas Martin Brooks
• Nicola Ann Dawes DL
• Paul William Edwin Downes
• Roshan Bailey
• Susan Elizabeth Sanderson

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Common questions

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 SURREY CARE TRUST.

• THE SURREY CARE TRUST income £2.2m
• SOUTH YORKSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £2.4m
• SOMERSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.6m
• Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire income £4.6m
• SURREY COMMUNITY ACTION income £695k
• THE SURREY WILDLIFE TRUST LIMITED income £7.5m

Side by side with its peers

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