The Keith Howard Foundation

Registered charity 1127093 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE EMERALD FOUNDATION

To provide grants to charities which fall within the following:-The Arts, Social Mobility, Animal Welfare and Sport.

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED, IN PRACTICE

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Animals · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £18,210,719, a surplus from the previous year's £17,921,350. The trustees report that the charity is a going concern with no significant risks or uncertainties, and investment gains of £1,027,652 offset charitable expenditure of £1,062,321. The charity does not actively fundraise, relying instead on investment income to meet its grant-making objectives.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by S&W Audit. Discloses 4 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

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 09/11/2023, 9 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~215.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Greg Limb
• Howard Martin Alexander Fojt
• KAREN NOELLE FOJT
• Melissa Tomlinson
• Siobhan Fojt
• Vicky Williams

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Bradford City · Doncaster · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Leeds City · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION.

• THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION income £463k
• THE HUMANITARIAN TRUST income £240k
• THE HOWARD FOUNDATION income £147k
• KINGSGROVE COMMUNITY HUB income £394k
• KICC KINGDOM HARVEST income £81k
• WATES FOUNDATION LIMITED income £584k

Side by side with its peers

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