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.

Objects

6.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OFEDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH, AND SUCHOTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AS THE TRUSTEESMAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE (THE "OBJECTS").6.2 THIS PROVISION MAY BE AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION BUT ONLY WITH THEPRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COMMISSION.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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 · 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

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (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 BLACKDOWN HILLS TRUST.

• THE BLACKDOWN HILLS TRUST income £51k
• LITTLE HEARTS MATTER income £372k
• The Trust Foundation income £2.5m
• THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR HEART FAILURE income £1.1m
• GOLDHEART CHARITY LIMITED income £439k
• THE HEARTH FOUNDATION income £133k

Side by side with its peers

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