THE PICKWELL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1149424 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Pickwell Foundation is a grant making Trust which focuses on supporting charities working in the following 2 areas:1) Those working with people who have been displaced2) Those working in the area of 'climate change'The foundation has a mix of grants to local charities based in the South-West of England, those working nationally and those working internationally.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £657,663 from £675,625 in the prior year, while total expenditure on charitable activities and fundraising rose to £704,258, resulting in a net resource decrease of £46,595. Free/unrestricted reserves (general funds) stood at £32,978, while total fund balances decreased to £880,629 from £927,224. The trustees report that no significant fixed reserves are maintained beyond restricted funds, relying on periodic trustee donations and business income to meet grant commitments.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Pickwell Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN BAKERchair
• LYN STRAHAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• RICHARD ELLIOTT
• SUSANNAH BAKER
• TRACEY ELLIOTT · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

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

• THE LIVEWELL FOUNDATION income £147k
• THE PWC FOUNDATION income £947k
• WICKENS FAMILY FOUNDATION income £224k
• PADWA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £244k
• THE PIKE STAR FOUNDATION income £150k
• THE PEARCE FOUNDATION income £175k

Side by side with its peers

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