THE FOUNDATION FOR LIVER RESEARCH

Registered charity 1134579 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Research comprises 7 main areas:- Viral Hepatitis; Liver Inflammation & Metabolism; Metabolic Profiling; Mitochondrial Dysfunction; Liver Regeneration & Repair; Alcohol; Senescence & the liver. The Institute of Hepatology is affiliated to Birkbeck, University of London & a Memo of Understanding has been signed with King's College London & King's College Hospital NHS Trust for future collaborations

Objects

A THE FURTHERANCE OR BENEFIT OF SUCH ONE OR MORE CHARITIES, CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES, AND IF MORE THAN ONE, IN SUCH SHARES AND MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FITB IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, TO DEVELOP AND EXTEND RESEARCH INTO THE HUMAN LIVER AND ITS DISEASES

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of (£1,289,152) for the year ended 30 June 2025, driven by a deficit before investment gains of £1,537,385. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £3,164,407, which exceeds the stated policy target of six months' running costs (£1.84 million). The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate 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 Caton Fry & Co Ltd. 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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07156633
• Trading subsidiary: LIVER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LIMITED Companies House 07944232 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Foundation for Liver Research (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Philip Newsome — Director (source)
• Colonel Hamon Massey — Chairman of the Board of Trustees (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• JONES, Rebecca — director, appointed 27/06/2025on trustee list
• PURVIS, Iain Steven — director, appointed 03/04/2025on trustee list
• BENNETT, Anna — director, appointed 01/11/2024on trustee list
• DAY, Christopher Paul, Professor — director, appointed 05/10/2022on trustee list
• FITZGERALD, Rebecca Clare, Professor — director, appointed 30/09/2022on trustee list
• HOPKINSON-WOOLLEY, Charles Bertram — director, appointed 15/02/2022on trustee list
• WAINWRIGHT, Simon Patrick — director, appointed 08/04/2020on trustee list
• GILMORE, Ian Thomas, Professor Sir — director, appointed 30/06/2019on trustee list
• MCGREGOR, Alan, Professor — director, appointed 30/06/2017on trustee list
• MASSEY, Hamon Patrick Dunham, Colonel — director, appointed 12/02/2010on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

17 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (12 freehold); recorded price paid £21.9m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Bennett · trustee of 1 other charity
• COL HAMON MASSEY
• Charles Hopkinson-Woolley
• Iain Purvis
• PROFESSOR ALAN MCGREGOR
• Professor Christopher Day · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Sir Ian Gilmore
• Rebecca Jones
• Simon Wainwright

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE LIVER.

• THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE LIVER income £647k
• Liver UK income £2.5m
• BRITISH SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY income £4.5m
• THE HEPATITIS C TRUST income £8.7m
• THE WILLIAM HARVEY RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £2.4m
• Liver Care and Housing LTD income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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