THE NATIONAL FUNDING SCHEME

Registered charity 1149800 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE NATIONAL DONATION SCHEME · also registered in Scotland as SC045106 (OSCR)

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a small trading surplus for the year ended 30 September 2025, despite total funds raised decreasing to £504,857 from £574,402 in the prior year. The trustees attribute this decline in giving to the ongoing impact of the cost-of-living crisis. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08223187

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.

• BAGSHAWE, Georgina — director, appointed 23/03/2022on trustee list
• COOPER, Sam — director, appointed 25/01/2021on trustee list
• PARK, Jun — director, appointed 19/02/2020on trustee list
• GALLOWAY, Jamie Alan — director, appointed 23/06/2016on trustee list
• MAKOWER, William John Leonard — director, appointed 20/09/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Georgina Bagshawe
• JAMIE GALLOWAY
• Jun Park
• Sam Cooper
• WILLIAM MAKOWER · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NATIONAL GARDEN SCHEME.

• THE NATIONAL GARDEN SCHEME income £5.8m
• THE MUMME-ACKFORD CHARITABLE TRUST income £150k
• NORTH WEST AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES income £357k
• THE JOSH CHARITABLE TRUST income £124k
• CHARITABLE GIVING income £708k
• EXPERT LINK income £146k

Side by side with its peers

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