Vivensa Foundation

Registered charity 1140372 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q30296625 · also known as THE DUNHILL MEDICAL TRUST

The Charity's objectives are to advance the understanding of human health and the prevention or relief of sickness, disease, ill health and human suffering for those in need by reason of advancing age including, but not exclusively, by funding research and the innovative development of health and social care services and publishing and disseminating the useful results thereof.

Objects

To advance the understanding of human health and the prevention or relief of sickness, disease, ill health and human suffering for those in need by reason of advancing age including, but not exclusively, by funding research and the innovative development of health and social care services and publishing and disseminating the useful results thereof.

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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · 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 the charity holds sufficient cash and liquid assets to cover future grant commitments, with the Trustees considering this a prudent management approach despite having no free reserves as defined by SORP. The charity operates on a going concern basis, supported by an investment portfolio valued at approximately £168.5 million and unrestricted income of £1.44 million for the year. The Trustees confirm that resources are adequate to meet liabilities and continue operations for at least twelve months from the date of authorization.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 3 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
• 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 vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• 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 07472301

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Katy Saunders — Chief Executive (source)
• Professor Deborah Dunn-Walters FRSB FMedSci — Chair (source)
• Dr Sanjay Thakrar — Director (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).

• Academy of Medical Sciences — “Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers with the Academy of Medical Sciences” (source page)
• MRC — “Joint MRC / Vivensa Foundation Professional Doctorate: Clinical research training fellowship” (source page)

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.

• WOLVERSON, Emma Louise, Professor — director, appointed 10/09/2026on trustee list
• JONES, Russell David — director, appointed 11/09/2025on trustee list
• MANTHORPE, Gillian Teresa, Professor — director, appointed 13/06/2024not on trustee list
• CLARK, Thomas John — director, appointed 07/03/2024on trustee list
• TURNER, Martin John Charles, Dr — director, appointed 07/12/2023not on trustee list
• GILROY, Rosemary Cecilia, Professor — director, appointed 07/09/2023on trustee list
• HUGHES, Carmel Majella, Professor — director, appointed 10/06/2021on trustee list
• JONES, Dominic William — director, appointed 03/12/2020on trustee list
• OSMAN, Eren Arif — director, appointed 03/12/2020on trustee list
• CONWAY, Bernard Arthur, Prof — director, appointed 07/03/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 15.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/10/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dominic William Jones
• Dr Martin Turner MAE
• Eren Osman
• Professor Bernard Conway
• Professor Carmel Majella Hughes
• Professor Deborah Kay Dunn-Walters · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Emma Louise Wolverson
• Professor Gillian Manthorpe CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Rosemary Cecilia Gilroy
• Russell David Jones
• Thomas John Clark

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

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

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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