THE POINT FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1126392 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our objectives centre around the words "Life, Live and Learn". The Charity looks to relieve poverty, sickness, and distress as well as advance the education of orphans up to the age of 18 years, in particular but not exclusively in Africa, by making grants of money for providing or paying for items, services and facilities in order to achieve our objectives.

Objects

The Charity's objects are to relieve poverty, sickness, distress and hardship in the world’s vulnerable communities and to enhance the life opportunities of vulnerable people through education, nutrition and health care, either by making grants of money or directly paying for items, services or facilities.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, OVERSEAS

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £7,963 against a stated policy target of £30,000 in a contingency reserve. The trustees report that total free reserves of £37,963 provide a 24-month buffer, ensuring the charity can continue operations for the next 12 to 18 months despite being entirely dependent on donations.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Point Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Morgridge Family Foundation — “this exciting development through the partnership between Point Foundation & Ubumwe Community Center wouldn't be possible without the amazin…” (source page)
• teapigs — “this exciting development through the partnership between Point Foundation & Ubumwe Community Center wouldn't be possible without the amazin…” (source page)
• Caffe Praego — “this exciting development through the partnership between Point Foundation & Ubumwe Community Center wouldn't be possible without the amazin…” (source page)
• Ava's Jammies — “this exciting development through the partnership between Point Foundation & Ubumwe Community Center wouldn't be possible without the amazin…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES LAWRENCE TRACEchair
• ADRIAN LANCE HAMMOND
• Timothy Kerr

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

Operates in: Rwanda · South Africa

Income and spending

Common questions

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

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 POINT.

• POINT income £1.0m
• LIVE AND LEARN income £984k
• THE COMPASS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION income £0
• FOUNTAIN OF PEACE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION UK income £272k
• SOURCE OF HOPE LIMITED income £148k
• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £256k

Side by side with its peers

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