HONOR FROST FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1147921 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HFF

The Foundation's mission is to promote the advancement and research, including publication, of marine and maritime archaeology with particular but not exclusive focus on the Eastern Mediterranean with an emphasis on Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus. The Foundation also supports safeguarding and promoting the protection of underwater cultural heritage (UCH).

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Foundation's net assets increased by £3,778,397 to £48,082,833, funded largely by investment gains. The Trustees note that the actual capital value of £48.1m exceeds the inflation-adjusted opening value of £44.8m, indicating the fund has preserved its real value. Although charitable expenditure exceeded income, the Foundation has sufficient resources to continue operations, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

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: 14.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/09/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALISON JULIA BEWLEY CATHIEchair
• Dr CLAUDE DOUMET-SERHAL CBE
• Dr JOHN EDWARD CURTIS OBE, FBA
• Dr VENETIA ANN PORTER
• PETER MARSHALL WOLRICH
• Paola Alagna
• ROGER JACKSON CLARK FCA · trustee of 3 other charities
• Stephen Douglas Barber · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Australia · City Of Westminster · Cyprus · Egypt · France · Germany · Greece · Israel · Italy · Lebanon · Malta · Mexico

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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