CHANGING IDEAS LTD

Registered charity 1117008 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHANGING IDEAS

THE OBJECT OF CHANGING IDEAS IS TO BENEFIT SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIMETO TIME THINK FIT.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased significantly to £8,568,444 following major donations from trustees, enabling the charity to increase its grant-making activities. The trustees confirm that the charity operates on a going concern basis with healthy cash balances and sufficient funds to meet expected expenditure for the next twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Scott Vevers Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05735047

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Graham — 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.

• HOARE, Hannah Charlotte — director, appointed 07/01/2025on trustee list
• TAIT, Jane Elisabeth — director, appointed 10/10/2022on trustee list
• GRAHAM, David Lionel — director, appointed 08/03/2006on trustee list
• EATOUGH, Matthew Thomas John — director, appointed 08/03/2006on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~103.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID LIONEL GRAHAMchair
• Hannah Charlotte Hoare
• JANE ELISABETH TAIT
• MATTHEW THOMAS JOHN EATOUGH

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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