IRWIN MITCHELL CHARITIES FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1146962 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IMCF

The primary objects of the are:1. Promotion of charitable purposes for the benefit of the community generally;2. The relief of poverty in cases of need, hardship or distress; and3. General charitable purposes where the Trustees have discretion as to the charities selected.

Objects

1) PROMOTION OF CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY GENERALLY.2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN CASES OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.3) GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHERE THE TRUSTEES HAVE DISCRETION AS TO THE CHARITIES SELECTED.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £131,138 for the year ended 30 April 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Free reserves stand at £670,799, which the trustees consider a positive level sufficient to sustain operations. The charity relies on voluntary income from staff and partners, with no employees and limited operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2023 (received 26/04/2024, 57 days after the 29/02/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08031469

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Irwin Mitchell Charities 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.

• PARRY, Helen Leila Sutherland — director, appointed 22/04/2025on trustee list
• JONES, Caroline — director, appointed 10/04/2024on trustee list
• KAVANAGH, Anne-Marie Josephine — director, appointed 17/11/2020on trustee list
• HARLINGTON, David — director, appointed 11/07/2012on trustee list
• BUDGEN, Adrian Patrick Boyce — director, appointed 16/04/2012on trustee list
• WHITE, Leigh — director, appointed 16/04/2012on trustee list
• HARLINGTON, David — secretary, appointed 10/03/2023

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADRIAN PATRICK BOYCE BUDGENchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Anna-marie Josephine Kavanagh
• Caroline Jones
• DAVID HARLINGTON
• Helen Leila Sutherland Parry
• LEIGH WHITE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Bristol City · Cambridgeshire · City Of London · Leeds City · Manchester City · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · Scotland · Sheffield City · Southampton City · Sri Lanka · West Sussex

Income and spending

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