PEPAL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1137688 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Pepal Foundation is a grant making body which make grants to support participants on Pepal programmes as well as to support institutional building capacity. Pepal Foundation works to mobilise resources and to operate its subsidiary, Pepal Limited to serve its charitable purposes.Pepal programmes partner the private sector with NGOs to make a sustainable social impact in developing countries.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£299k

Latest spending

£289k

Registered

2010

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the group made an operating surplus of £10,109 in 2024, with total income of £299,224 and expenditure of £289,115. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £191,887, which is above the stated policy target of £95,797, providing sufficient resources to meet working capital needs.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: one third of the unrestricted annual expenditure (held: £192k)

“The trustees aim to hold as unrestricted general funds an amount which is equivalent to one third of the unrestricted annual expenditure in order to provide sufficient cash to meet the operational needs of the organisation.” — page 9

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Funders the charity credits

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

Comic Relief — “Between 2015 and 2017 Caring Together received funding from Comic Relief to scale up.” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

DR ANDRIY KLEPIKOV
Edward James Brooker Marsh
JULIE SAUNDERS
Vikas Karlekar

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

Operates in: India · Tanzania · Uganda

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£299k	£289k
31/12/2023	£439k	£432k
31/12/2022	£360k	£350k
31/12/2021	£230k	£204k
31/12/2020	£181k	£185k

Common questions

Is PEPAL FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the group made an operating surplus of £10,109 in 2024, with total income of £299,224 and expenditure of £289,115. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £191,887, which is above the stated policy target of £95,797, providing sufficient resources to meet working capital needs. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE MASTER CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£250k
THE KENNETH & SUSAN GREEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£75k
FUSION21 FOUNDATION	1	£54k
THE HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS' CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£28k
THE THOMAS J HORNE MEMORIAL TRUST	1	£25k
THE BARBARA WARD CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION	1	£25k
THE MILL CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£15k
THE TOY TRUST	1	£13k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PEPPER FOUNDATION.

THE PEPPER FOUNDATION income £544k
PEOPLES FOUNDATION income £186k
THE PALOMA FOUNDATION income £257k
THE PEARS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £28.5m
PEABODY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £9.0m
THE PA FOUNDATION income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
PEPAL FOUNDATION	£299k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PEPPER FOUNDATION FY2025	£544k	—	0	above	29.3%	no doubt
PEOPLES FOUNDATION FY2025	£186k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PALOMA FOUNDATION FY2024	£257k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE PEARS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FY2025	£28.5m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
PEABODY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FY2025	£9.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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