THE ELDERS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1132397 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1517662 · Wikipedia

The Elders is an independent group of global leaders who offer their collective influence and experience to advance international conflict resolution and reconciliation for the public benefit with a view to relieving suffering, poverty, and distress. The Elders help address major causes of human suffering and promote the shared interests of humanity.

Objects

A PREVENT AND RELIEVE POVERTYB RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF SICKNESS, ILL-HEALTH OR OTHER DISADVANTAGEC ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFITD ADVANCE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND RECONCILIATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITH A VIEW TO RELIEVING SUFFERING, POVERTY AND DISTRESS AND BUILDING AND MAINTAINING SOCIAL COHESION AND TRUST WITHIN AND BETWEEN COMMUNITIESE PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFITIN EACH CASE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

Area of benefit: ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £3.7 million, representing over 10 months of expenditure against a policy target of nine months. The charity reported a net expenditure of £75,000 for the year, funded by £3.6 million in income, and confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

• Juan Manuel Santos — Chair (source)
• Graça Machel — Deputy Chair (source)
• Gro Harlem Brundtland — Elder (source)
• Helen Clark — Elder (source)
• Elbegdorj Tsakhia — Elder (source)
• Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein — Elder (source)
• Hina Jilani — Elder (source)
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — Elder (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~12.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 4.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Denis Mukwege
• Ellen Eugenia Johnson-Sirleaf
• Graca Machel
• Gro Brundtland
• Helen Clark
• Hina Jilani
• Juan Manuel Santos
• PRESIDENT MARY THERESE ROBINSON
• President Ernest Zedillo
• Tsakhia Elbegdorj
• Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTION FOR ELDERS TRUST.

• ACTION FOR ELDERS TRUST income £339k
• PERSIAN CARE CENTRE income £27k
• THE GENERATIONS FOUNDATION income £138k
• ELDERLY ACCOMMODATION COUNSEL income £169k
• IRISH ELDERLY ADVICE NETWORK income £323k
• CARERS WORLDWIDE income £735k

Side by side with its peers

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