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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SURREY

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

Latest income
£4.0m
Latest spending
£2.5m
Registered
2005
Accounts read
FY2025

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 of £474,000. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern, and its reserves are above the stated policy target.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £80,001 - £90,000 — above the median for charities its size (£76k)
“There was one employee whose emoluments (as defined for taxation purposes) amounted to between £80k-£90k in the year” — page 28
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Employees paid over £60,000: 1
“There was one employee whose emoluments (as defined for taxation purposes) amounted to between £80k-£90k in the year” — page 28
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: four months of the subsequent year's budgeted operating expenditure (held: £474k)
“It is the Reserves Policy of the Foundation that unrestricted funds, which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level of at least four months of the subsequent year's budgeted operating expenditure.” — page 12
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Alliotts LLP.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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

Total income
£4.6m
Total spending
£2.5m
Cost of raising funds
£150k
Reserves (reported)
£474k
Employees
10

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£4.0m£2.5m
31/03/2024£2.3m£2.6m
31/03/2023£2.4m£2.9m
31/03/2022£3.3m£3.1m
31/03/2021£4.4m£4.8m

Common questions

Is COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SURREY financially healthy?

The accounts state that total income for the year ended 31 March 2025 was £4,642,000, with unrestricted reserves of £474,000. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern, and its reserves are above the stated policy target. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Alliotts LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SURREY earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £80,001 - £90,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SURREY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SURREY as a grant recipient include THE BUFFINI CHAO FOUNDATION, THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION, THE BORROWS CHARITABLE TRUST, PETER HARRISON FOUNDATION, THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmount
THE BUFFINI CHAO FOUNDATIONFY2022£91k
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATIONFY2025£75k
THE BORROWS CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£65k
PETER HARRISON FOUNDATIONFY2023£50k
PETER HARRISON FOUNDATIONFY2023£50k
THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2023£34k
THE CHARLES RUSSELL SPEECHLYS FOUNDATIONFY2025£33k
JOHN LAING CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£25k
JOHN LAING CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£25k
THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITEDFY2025£20k
THE BILLMEIR CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£5k
THE BILLMEIR CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£1k
THE BILLMEIR CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£1k
JAMMA INTERNATIONALFY2023£-5k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund06/11/2024£250k"Surrey’s “Heritage for All” Grants Programme"

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