THE RUMI FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1115154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The purposes of the Charity are: - the advancement of education in the UK and overseas;- the provision, support and promotion of the education of children and young people in schools and institutions of further and higher education;- the education of disadvantaged members of the public; - the promotion of the arts; and - the relief of poverty.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Foundation holds unrestricted reserves of £62,435,450, which significantly exceeds its stated policy target of one year's charitable expenditure (£0.89m). Per the trustees' report, the Foundation has sufficient resources to meet its continuing obligations and is not dependent on securing future funding 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 S&W Partners Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Spear’s Wealth Management Awards Winner Interview: Lord Verjee, the Rumi Foundation spearswms.com · 09/02/2022
• Sufi festival 'Insaniyat Ka Paigham' organised by Department of Art, Literature and Culture, Department of Tourism, and the Rumi Foundation in Jaipur timesofindia.indiatimes.com · 04/01/2014

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05840786

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lord Rumi Verjee — Founder (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.

• MALCOLMSON, Stuart Matthew — director, appointed 28/09/2020on trustee list
• MURIITHI, David — director, appointed 18/07/2006on trustee list
• POLLARD, Brent — director, appointed 18/07/2006on trustee list
• MALCOLMSON, Stuart — secretary, appointed 30/09/2020

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

28 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (20 freehold); recorded price paid £62.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~8.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (86% 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: 94.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRENT POLLARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID MURIITHI
• Stuart Malcolmson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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