KEATS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1147589 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Keats Foundation encourages enjoyment and understanding of John Keats's poems, letters, life and times and to inspire new generations of young poets to fulfil their creative ambitions. The Foundation supports a broad spectrum of educational and creative initiatives at Keats House, Hampstead, and elsewhere including talks and lectures, poetry readings, and Keats-related conferences.

Objects

THE PROMOTION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF CREATIVE WRITING AND THE ART OF POETRY, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE WORK, LIFE AND TIMES OF THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC POET JOHN KEATS (1795 - 1821) INCLUDING BY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO)(A) ENHANCING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF AND SUPPORTING EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS FOR KEATS HOUSE (CHARITY NUMBER 1053381)(B) PROVIDING FUNDING AND SUPPORT TO THE PROMOTION OF POETRY WRITING AND POETRY APPRECIATION

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Fife, Scotland (from the postcode on the register)

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Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 01/04/2025 (received 12/03/2026, 39 days after the 01/02/2026 due date); year ending 01/04/2024 (received 26/03/2025, 53 days after the 01/02/2025 due date); year ending 01/04/2023 (received 01/08/2024, 182 days after the 01/02/2024 due date); year ending 01/04/2022 (received 03/02/2023, 2 days after the 01/02/2023 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Richard Marggraf Turleychair
• Dr Lucasta Miller
• JUDITH PALMER
• Prof Nicholas ROE FBA, FRSE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Fiona Stafford
• Professor Sarah Wootton

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

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