THE DANSON FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1121928 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The income of the trust is applied to making grants to organisations, institutions and individuals. The aim is to contribute to peoples' quality of life by focusing on Education, Mental Health and Environmental initiatives.

Objects

TO APPLY THE INCOME OF THE TRUST FOR SUCH PURPOSES THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLEIN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £818,511 for the year, driven by grant-making expenditures exceeding investment income. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves have fallen to £1,832,544, which the trustees consider below their stated policy target of maintaining funds equivalent to three to six months of normal grant-making expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Smailes Goldie. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

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

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• 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 31/12/2024 (received 22/01/2026, 83 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 08/12/2025, 403 days after the 31/10/2024 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Danson Family — “The foundation was started in 2010 with a substantial donation from the Danson Family.” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL THOMAS DANSONchair
• ELLA ROSE ELIZABETH DANSON
• HELEN MARGARET DANSON

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DANSON YOUTH TRUST.

• DANSON YOUTH TRUST income £406k
• THE ANDERSON FOUNDATION income £976k
• LORD HANSON FOUNDATION income £64k
• THE DRAYSON FOUNDATION income £64k
• The Trust Foundation income £2.5m
• FROGNAL TRUST income £104k

Side by side with its peers

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