PETER SOWERBY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1151978 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trustees' primary aim is to make grants to other UK registered or exempt charities and in particular charities falling within the categories of:a) Medical/ health/ sicknessb) Relief of povertyc) Community and environment

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE SUCH OBJECTS OR PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES

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

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds substantial unrestricted funds of £73,333,941, significantly exceeding its stated reserves policy target of £1.7 million. The trustees confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future, and the auditor reported no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UNW LLP. Discloses 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

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: 29.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID BENJAMIN HAROLD ASPINALLchair
• Dr DAVID STABLES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Radha Sundaram
• Professor Carole Margaret Longson
• Professor Francis Anthony Drobniewski
• Sara Siegel Poulios

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PETER STEBBINGS MEMORIAL CHARITY.

• THE PETER STEBBINGS MEMORIAL CHARITY income £102k
• PS FOUNDATION income £560k
• BETA CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.7m
• HELP TO CREATE HOPE TRUST income £2.1m
• THE BEAVERBROOK FOUNDATION income £118k
• THE LIVESEY FOUNDATION income £131k

Side by side with its peers

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