THE EVAN CORNISH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1112703 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant Making financial support for Charitable good causes

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON TRUST TO APPLY THEM FOR ALL CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Disability · General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £8,554,996 to £7,077,726 due to a net expenditure of £1,477,270, driven by grant making of £1,258,768 and investment management costs of £40,655 against investment income of £164,515. The trustees note that grants are paid from both income and capital reserves, and the charity maintains a policy of not retaining capital reserves as long as ongoing financial viability is not at risk.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hollis and Co Limited. 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.

• 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 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARBARA JEAN WARD
• RACHEL ELIZABETH CORNISH
• SALLY ANN CORNISH

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Bangladesh · Brazil · Burma · Burundi · Cambodia · Cameroon · Egypt · Eswatini · Ethiopia · France · Ghana

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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Side by side with its peers

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