ST. JAMES'S PLACE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1144606 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST. JAMES'S PLACE FOUNDATION

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total funds were £8.4m, with unrestricted reserves of £2.97m against a stated policy target of £750,000 plus contingent liabilities. The charity raised £9.7m in income and distributed £8.8m in grants, maintaining a positive cash position with reserves in excess of future grant commitments.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Meet the funder: St James’s Place Charitable Foundation civilsociety.co.uk · 08/05/2026
• St. James’s Place Charitable Foundation Unveils New Grantmaking Framework charitytoday.co.uk · 13/11/2025
• Chichester community group Pregnancy Options Centre receives grant from St. James’s Place Charitable Foundation sussexexpress.co.uk · 26/03/2025
• The St. James’s Place Charitable Foundation grants funding for Community Champions southamptonfc.com · 26/07/2024

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07819270

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St. James's Place Charitable Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Andrew Humphries — Chair (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).

• St. James's Place plc — “We are a UK registered charity founded by St. James’s Place plc (SJP) and supported by colleagues across all areas of the business. This com…” (source page)
• St. James's Place — “With the support of St. James’s Place and its Partners, advisers, and employees, we’re able to fund hundreds of impactful charities each yea…” (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.

• WRIGHT, Alison Jane — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• FOWLER, Matthew Robert — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• HARPER, Michael John — director, appointed 22/05/2024on trustee list
• FITZPATRICK, Mark Thomas — director, appointed 06/02/2024on trustee list
• HUMPHRIES, Andrew John, Mr — director, appointed 01/03/2020on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Robert Medwyn — director, appointed 01/03/2020on trustee list
• COOPER-SMITH, Malcolm — director, appointed 21/10/2011on trustee list
• ST. JAMES'S PLACE CORPORATE SECRETARY LIMITED — corporate secretary, appointed 07/10/2014

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~10.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (94% 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: 2.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/04/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Wright
• Andrew Humphries
• MALCOLM COOPER-SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Thomas Fitzpatrick
• Matthew Fowler
• Michael Harper
• Robert Medwyn Edwards

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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