CHANDRAN FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1128023 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PRESET CHARITABLE TRUST

Chandran Foundation aims to help young people from all backgrounds achieve their potential. Our tutors work with under 11s to improve Maths and English and build confidence. Chandran Foundation runs after school clubs, now called GetSmart clubs for primary school children to improve Maths and English skills.

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Latest income
£236k
Latest spending
£234k
Registered
2009
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a surplus of £2,527 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a deficit in the previous year. Total income decreased to £236,491 from £334,170, while total expenditure also fell significantly to £233,964 from £449,228. The trustees confirm that adequate resources continue to be available to fund the charity's activities for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Employees paid over £60,000: 1
“Aggregate remuneration and benefits paid to key management personnel during the year amounted to £77,000” — page 19
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: six months of operating costs (held: £35k)
“The Trustees consider a minimum of six months of the operating costs is the ideal level of reserves and sufficient unrestricted reserves to fund the charity’s administrative and operating costs for at least six months.” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Ealing · Haringey · Hillingdon · Lambeth · Lewisham · Surrey · Wandsworth

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£236k£234k
31/03/2024£334k£449k
31/03/2023£322k£297k
31/03/2022£193k£155k
31/03/2021£104k£130k

Common questions

Is CHANDRAN FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity made a surplus of £2,527 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a deficit in the previous year. Total income decreased to £236,491 from £334,170, while total expenditure also fell significantly to £233,964 from £449,228. The trustees confirm that adequate resources continue to be available to fund the charity's activities for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds CHANDRAN FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CHANDRAN FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE CHILDHOOD TRUST, WALCOT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, THE FORTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE CHILDHOOD TRUSTFY2025£11k
WALCOT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONFY2024£10kGetSmarter
THE FORTE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2023£3k55% of the running costs for a programme of online English/Maths tuition to support children’s transition to secondary school in the LB of Lambeth.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund14/03/2022£90kGetSteady
The National Lottery Community Fund30/09/2015£10kHoneywell Homework Club

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CHANDRAN FOUNDATION£236k—1unclear—no doubt
THE CHANDRIS FOUNDATION FY2024£3.3m£150,000 - £200,00010above—no doubt
THE CHANGE FOUNDATION FY2025£1.3m——unclear—no doubt
READ FOUNDATION FY2025£12.1m——unclear—noted
THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FY2025£259k—0unclear—no doubt
Number Champions FY2025£103k—0above1.2%no doubt

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