SAFER ROADS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1127577 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The implement and improve safety on the highway. To work with authorities and commercial organisations in the development of design standards affecting safety of the road users.To increase public awareness of the issues affecting safety on the roads with the aim of changing attitudes through education, promotion and campaigning with other individuals and organisations with similar objectives.

Objects

1) ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ISSUES OF ROAD SAFETY WITH THE OBJECT OF REDUCING DEATH AND INJURY ON THE ROADS PARTICULARLY BY: -A) PROMOTING SAFE PRACTICES IN RELATION TO PUBLIC ROAD USE;B) CONDUCTING RESEARCH INTO WAYS TO MAKE THE ROADS SAFER AND DISSEMINATING SUCH RESEARCH.2) THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN LIFE AND HEALTH BY THE PREVENTION OF PERSONAL INJURY TO AND DEATH OF INDIVIDUALS ON ROADS AND IN MOTOR VEHICLES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY CAMPAIGNING ON ISSUES OF ROAD SAFETY.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The Safer Roads Foundation reported a net decrease in unrestricted funds of £125,184 for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in year-end reserves of £776,846. The charity's reserves policy targets a minimum of three months' expenditure, and the trustees state that current reserves are in excess of this policy. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, with trustees expressing reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06527979 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Safer Roads Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• THWAITES, Michael Robert — director, appointed 07/12/2020on trustee list
• GREENGRASS, Stuart Malcolm — director, appointed 11/02/2019on trustee list
• SOMAVILLA, Anunciacion — director, appointed 16/10/2012on trustee list
• WOODFORD, Michael Christopher — director, appointed 07/03/2008on trustee list

Official officers record.

Electoral Commission register entries

Entries on the Electoral Commission’s public register where this charity (or its company) appears as the source — typically sponsorship of an APPG or an overseas visit provided to an MP, which charities may lawfully do. Shown with the Commission’s own reference; this is a transparency record, not an allegation.

• Visit: Mr Barry Sheerman MP (MP - Member of Parliament) — £2k · 19/08/2018 · Bangkok, Thailand · ref V0400186
  To attend the Asian Transport Research Society (ATRNS) annual conference in my capacity as Chair of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) for the UK.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER WOODFORDchair
• ANUNCIACION SOMAVILLA
• MICHAEL ROBERT THWAITES
• Stuart Malcolm Greengrass

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

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Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION income £977k
• THE ROAD SAFETY TRUST income £102.1m
• ROADSAFE income £889k
• AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST FOR ROAD SAFETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT income £148k
• THE PARLIAMENTARY ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR TRANSPORT SAFETY income £350k
• THE ROAD OPERATORS SAFETY COUNCIL income £65k

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