THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES

Registered charity 1132048 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q2370879 · Wikipedia · also known as THE FOUNDATION OF PRINCE WILLIAM AND PRINCE HARRY, THE ROYAL FOUNDATION, THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE, THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE AND PRINCE HARRY, THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE AND THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX

The Foundation is a philanthropic investor in three key areas, both in the United Kingdom and overseas: helping disadvantaged young people, supporting military veterans and their families, and promoting sustainable development.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE ANY PURPOSE WHICH IS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £19.6m from £12.2m in the prior year, driven by greater unrestricted and restricted support and a net asset share from The Earthshot Prize. Total operating expenditure rose to £16.6m, with 89% spent on charitable activities, resulting in a net income of £3.28m for the group. The charity holds free reserves of £8.1m, which the Trustees note exceed their stated policy target of 9-12 months of operating expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Simon Patterson — Chairman (source)
• Sarah Henwood — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Dr Tom Clements — Executive Director, Conservation (source)
• Hazel Detsiny — Executive Director, Homelessness (source)
• Christian Guy — Executive Director, Centre for Early Childhood (source)
• Kully Kaur-Ballagan — Director, Research & Impact (source)
• Kathryn Martindale — Director of Finance and Operations (source)
• Amy Pickerill — Creative 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 9.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Iain Pattersonchair
• Alexandra Flora Beidas
• Alice Webb
• Ian John Patrick MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• PIPPA HARRIS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sir David John Lewis
• Sir Rohinton Minoo Kalifa
• Thomas Garry White
• Zeinab Mohammed-Khair Badawi-Malik · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE RANDAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £3.3m
• PRINCESS OF WALES'S ROYAL REGIMENT (QUEEN'S AND ROYAL HAMPSHIRES) BENEVOLENT FUND income £377k
• THE SARAH AND PATRICK WILLS FOUNDATION income £55k
• THE PATRICK ROWLAND FOUNDATION income £84k
• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IN WALES income £3.2m
• THE ROYAL WELSH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LIMITED income £7.8m

Side by side with its peers

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