ST GEORGE FOUNDATION LTD

Registered charity 1118871 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Raising funds in the UK and providing those funds to St George Foundation, Sierra Leone in furtherance of the charity's formal objects to relieve poverty and sickness and advance education amongst homeless children and young people in Sierra Leone.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, AMONGST HOMELESS CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN SIERRA LEONE.

Area of benefit: SIERRA LEONE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Winchester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £32,290, resulting in total net assets of £40,116. The trustees report a policy to expend sums raised as soon as possible to achieve the charity's objects, rather than retaining significant general reserves. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention to suggest the accounts were not prepared in accordance with applicable standards.

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 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 30/08/2024, 212 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 31/01/2023, 365 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St George Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID MICHAEL HEDGES
• James Sandfield
• Joseph Barnabas Hunter
• Patrick Francis John
• Robert James Hurley

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Sierra Leone

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST. GEORGE INDIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LEICESTER.

• ST. GEORGE INDIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH LEICESTER income £74k
• THE CECIL GRANT FOUNDER'S TRUST FOR ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL income £140k
• ST GEORGE ERITREAN ORTHODOX CHURCH income £138k
• ST GEORGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LTD income £72k
• ST GREGORY'S PRE-SCHOOL LTD income £294k
• ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ASSOCIATION income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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