THE FEBRUARY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1113064 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141191049

The Foundation is an independent grant-making charity with broad-ranging charitable objectives.

Objects

GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE

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: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Broadland, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased by £4,776,518 to £64,055,628, driven by a large gift of shares and significant unrealised investment losses. The trustees consider the unrestricted income fund of £18,781,775 and the expendable endowment of £45,273,853 to be adequate to meet current and long-term commitments. The auditor confirmed that the going concern basis of accounting 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 Buzzacott Audit 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.

• Complaints handling
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 28/02/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~24.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/02/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JAMES HUBERT CARLETON
• Mark Raymond Clarke · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael James Moody

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 BARBOUR FOUNDATION.

• THE BARBOUR FOUNDATION income £2.6m
• PROWTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £140k
• ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS income £1.7m
• The WFH Foundation income £88k
• The Trust Foundation income £2.5m
• THE BREWERS FOUNDATION income £232k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.