John Lewis Partnership Foundation

Registered charity 1118162 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BUILDING HAPPIER FUTURES, BUILDING HAPPIER FUTURES FOUNDATION, JOHN LEWIS & PARTNERS FOUNDATION, JOHN LEWIS FOUNDATION, John Lewis Foundation, THE JOHN LEWIS FOUNDATION

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the trustees are responsible for assessing the Charitable Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The independent auditor, KPMG LLP, reported having nothing to report regarding exceptions under the Companies Act 2006, indicating no identified failures in accounting records or disclosures.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KPMG LLP.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jason Tarry — Chairman (source)
• Rita Clifton CBE — Deputy Chairman and Non-Executive Director (source)
• Nina Bhatia — Managing Director, New Businesses (source)
• Tom Denyard — Managing Director, Waitrose (source)
• Zak Mian — Chief Transformation & Technology Officer (source)
• Peter Ruis — Managing Director, John Lewis (source)
• Helen Webb — Chief People Officer (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 29/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• Dame Oriana Clare Tickell
• David Cope
• James Kiefer Fletcher · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julie Claire Rushworth
• Marija Rompani · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIMON BISHOP
• Tracy Maree Higgins

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

Operates in: Cambodia · China · India · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales · Vietnam

Income and spending

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