BLACK HEART FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED

Registered charity 1136813 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To administer grants for the benefit of underpriviliged and under-resourced children with an emphasis on organisations with a focus on education and health.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds are in deficit, standing at £194,077 as of 30 April 2025, compared to a deficit of £595,478 in the prior year. The trustees confirm that the charity relies on donations from key donors, specifically the Chair of Trustees, to fund commitments and ensure cash flow, noting that all governance costs are paid by the Chair to ensure 100% of third-party resources are used for grants.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07241076

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Black Heart Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• VAUGHAN, Michael Paul — director, appointed 08/07/2019on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Olivia — director, appointed 12/02/2019on trustee list
• DAWSON, Matt — director, appointed 12/02/2019on trustee list
• HOWLETT, Ross — director, appointed 12/02/2019on trustee list
• SHARPE, Ben — director, appointed 12/02/2019on trustee list
• HEATH, Claire Nicola — director, appointed 30/04/2010on trustee list
• LEWIS, Richard Wayne — director, appointed 30/04/2010on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~17.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RICHARD WAYNE LEWISchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Ben Sharpe
• CLAIRE HEATH
• Matt Dawson
• Michael Vaughan
• Olivia Griffiths
• Ross Howlett

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE HEARN FOUNDATION.

• THE HEARN FOUNDATION income £4.4m
• THE SACRED HEARTS SISTERS 1983 CHARITABLE FUND income £10.4m
• HUMAN PRACTICE FOUNDATION UK income £184k
• The Brindle Foundation income £2.3m
• THE BERTIE BLACK FOUNDATION income £150k
• THE LINK FOUNDATION LTD income £113k

Side by side with its peers

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