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QUINTESSENTIALLY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1144584 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Quintessentially Foundation organises a number of fundraising and awareness events annually to support partner charities.

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

Latest income
£1.3m
Latest spending
£1.3m
Registered
2011
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,264,057, which the trustees confirm is adequate against their policy target of six months' operating expenses. The charity reported a net deficit of £3,097 for the year, resulting from total resources expended exceeding total income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months’ worth of operating expenses (held: £1.3m)
“Our reserves policy dictates that we hold unrestricted and undesignated funds equivalent to six months’ worth of operating expenses.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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).

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.

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income
£1.3m
Total spending
£1.3m
Cost of raising funds
£625k
Reserves (reported)
£1.3m
Employees
5

Reported reserves equal ~11.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (82% 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: 48.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£1.3m£1.3m
31/12/2024£1.1m£1.2m
31/12/2023£1.6m£857k
31/12/2022£1.1m£854k
31/12/2021£1.1m£640k

Common questions

Is QUINTESSENTIALLY FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,264,057, which the trustees confirm is adequate against their policy target of six months' operating expenses. The charity reported a net deficit of £3,097 for the year, resulting from total resources expended exceeding total income. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by TC Group.

Who funds QUINTESSENTIALLY FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name QUINTESSENTIALLY FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE ERANDA ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATION, THE RORY AND ELIZABETH BROOKS FOUNDATION, THE JAGCLIF CHARITABLE TRUST, THE HINDUJA FOUNDATION, THE ROTHERMERE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE ERANDA ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATIONFY2024£300kHealth/welfare/medical research
THE ERANDA ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATIONFY2022£281kHealth/welfare/medical research
THE ERANDA ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATIONFY2025£88kHealth, welfare and medical research
THE RORY AND ELIZABETH BROOKS FOUNDATIONFY2025£50k
THE JAGCLIF CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£20kdonation
THE HINDUJA FOUNDATIONFY2021£15kThe relief of poverty, hunger and sickness
THE ROTHERMERE FOUNDATIONFY2023£10kOther charitable donations
THE HINDUJA FOUNDATIONFY2022£10kThe relief of poverty, hunger and sickness
THE SIR JOHN RITBLAT FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2024£5k
THE UKI CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2023£5k
THE EARL FITZWILLIAM CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£3k
THE RORY AND ELIZABETH BROOKS FOUNDATIONFY2023£3k
THE GEORGE CADBURY TRUST (GEORGE HENRY T AND LAURENCE J CADBURY SECTIONS)FY2022£2k
THE GEORGE CADBURY TRUST (GEORGE HENRY T AND LAURENCE J CADBURY SECTIONS)FY2024£1k
GRAFF FOUNDATIONFY2022£1k
THE JAGCLIF CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£0Donations and grants payable in furtherance of objects
THE ERANDA ROTHSCHILD FOUNDATIONFY2023£0Health/welfare/medical research
THE SIR JOHN RITBLAT FAMILY FOUNDATIONFY2023—
THE RORY AND ELIZABETH BROOKS FOUNDATIONFY2026—

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION1£1.6m
THE ADDERSTONE FOUNDATION1£1.2m
PERSULA FOUNDATION1£510k
THE GENERATIONAL FOUNDATION1£500k
NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST1£18k
LIVING WELL UK1£14k
BOOST CHARITABLE TRUST1£7k
THE PENNIES FOUNDATION1£7k

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
QUINTESSENTIALLY FOUNDATION£1.3m——unclear—no doubt
PERSONAL BEST FOUNDATION FY2025£135k—0below—no doubt
THE FAIRNESS FOUNDATION FY2025£242k——unclear—no doubt
THE KANTA FOUNDATION FY2025£168k—0unclear—no doubt
AEONIAN FOUNDATION FY2024£812k—0unclear—no doubt
THE GENERATIONAL FOUNDATION FY2024£1.4m—0unclear—no doubt

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