LOCALGIVING FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1132411 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ARDBRACK FOUNDATION · also registered in Scotland as SC047395 (OSCR)

To stimulate the growth and funding opportunities for local charities and community groups throughout the UK.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a surplus of £68,214 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a deficit in the prior year. However, the charity carries significant unrestricted deficits, with general funds at a deficit of £476,515 and group general funds at a deficit of £4,490,031 due to accumulated trading losses in its subsidiary. The trustees consider the charity a going concern, citing strong growth in voluntary income and confidence in future increases.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goodman Jones LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Topics - Philanthropist hands reins to social entrepreneur at the Localgiving Foundation charitydigital.org.uk · 05/10/2017

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tom Latchford — Chair (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Grid — “Walk (Stoke-on-Trent) funding received from National Grid through Localgiving” (source page)
• People’s Postcode Lottery — “We delivered the £1m+ Magic Little Grants partnership programme supporting 2000+ local charitable organisations across the United Kingdom. A…” (source page)
• SP Energy Networks — “Localgiving is the delivery partner of SP Energy Networks Community Benefit Funding programme aimed at supporting organisations across centr…” (source page)
• Department for Culture Media and Sport — “Our team delivered £2m+ grant programme on behalf of the UK government Department for Culture Media and Sport supporting 400+ organisations …” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% 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: 16.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• TOM LATCHFORDchair
• Benjamin Miller
• Gillian Mead
• LARA COWIN
• REBECCA SWEETMAN

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UK COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS.

• UK COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS income £11.3m
• UK GIVES LTD income £1.5m
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.7m
• LEICESTERSHIRE, LEICESTER AND RUTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £702k
• LOCALITY (UK) income £9.1m
• HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £656k

Side by side with its peers

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