THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES

Registered charity 1132048 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

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

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.

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 (3.8%) (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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL COUNTRYSIDE FUND.

• THE ROYAL COUNTRYSIDE FUND income £4.1m
• THE ROYAL WELSH REGIMENTAL WELFARE AND BENEVOLENCE FOUNDATION income £351k
• Richmond Foundation income £2.3m
• THE VETERANS' FOUNDATION income £17.3m
• THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF ST KATHARINE income £3.1m
• King Charles III Charitable Fund income £8.4m

Side by side with its peers

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