ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE LONDRES LIMITED

Registered charity 1113773 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

to advance education in the French language, French literature, French history and French culture

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £511,848 and has drawn down on its unrestricted reserves, which fell from £1,921,795 to £1,409,947. The trustees report that teaching activities are no longer viable and the charity is facing ongoing financial pressure from the cost of living and high rents. Despite these challenges, the independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accord with those records.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~32.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (82% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr CAROLE GILLING-SMITH
• Dr CHRYSTEL HUG
• GORDON SMITH
• RICHARD MICHAEL FAIRBAIRN · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE MANCHESTER.

• ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE MANCHESTER income £480k
• PETITE ECOLE D'EALING income £159k
• COLLEGE FRANCAIS BILINGUE DE LONDRES LTD income £11.1m
• MAISON DE L'INSTITUT DE FRANCE A LONDRES (FONDATION EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD) income £223k
• YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
• Culture& Arts and Heritage income £523k

Side by side with its peers

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