THE CHERIE BLAIR FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN

Registered charity 1125751 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CHERIE BLAIR WOMEN'S FOUNDATION

Working in partnership with non-profit organisations, corporations and government bodies, the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women develops projects with sustainable solutions to the challenges women entrepreneurs face through three programmes: Enterprise Development, Mentoring and Mobile Technology.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 33% to £2,489,178, while total expenditure rose by 7% to £2,576,127, resulting in a net decrease in funds. The trustees report that free reserves of £308,894 are £26,106 below the stated policy target of £335,000, noting that cost reduction measures were approved in early 2025 to rebuild reserves.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2023) to "below" (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cherie Blair Foundation for Women (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Cherie Blair — Founder (source)
• Tanya Joseph — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Kate Mulhearn — Executive Director (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Team Lewis Foundation — “Our latest report, “Adopted not embedded: AI, productivity and uneven gains for women entrepreneurs”, in partnership with Intuit and the Wor…” (source page)
• USAID — “Steven G. Olive, Ph.D., Mission Director for USAID’s Regional Development Mission for Asia, on our USAID-funded WEAVE project” (source page)
• Bank of America — “Banking on impact: 10 years of partnership with Bank of America” (source page)
• Qualcomm — “Collaborating for impact: lessons learned from our long-term partnership with Qualcomm” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (59% 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: 16.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tanya Josephchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Andrew Woolnough
• Angela Salt
• Jyotiben Kanani
• Kerry Stares
• Robin George
• Suzanne Ehlers
• Winnie Wambugu

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

Operates in: Albania · Angola · Argentina · Armenia · Azerbaijan · Belarus · Bolivia · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Brazil · Burundi · Cambodia · Cameroon

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Women's Inclusive Team.

• Women's Inclusive Team income £647k
• FONDATION CHANEL income £172.8m
• WONDER FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• THE BLAIR TRUST FUND income £187k
• LSEG Foundation income £4.6m
• UN WOMEN NATIONAL COMMITTEE UK income £698k

Side by side with its peers

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