THE OLD DART FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1153568 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Alleviate poverty primarily in Peru and Papua New Guinea but also the Philippines, Brazil, Bolivia and Chile by supporting initiatives to improve health, literacy and education amongst impoverished women and children and other young people generally.It is also the intention to support efforts to create employment opportunities in impoverished communities as well as health and education initiatives

Objects

(A) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, BUT ESPECIALLY PERU AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA BUT ALSO INCLUDING BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, CHILE AND THE PHILIPPINES, BY PROVIDING: GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY ESPECIALLY THOSE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN;(B) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF PEOPLE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, BUT ESPECIALLY PERU AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA BUT ALSO INCLUDING BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, CHILE AND THE PHILIPPINES, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE DIRECTORS THINK FIT;(C) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, BUT ESPECIALLY PERU AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA BUT ALSO BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, CHILE AND THE PHILIPPINES; AND(D) THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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 · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the Foundation reported a net loss of £8,459,210 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £41,617,607. The Trustees consider the freely expendable funds to be appropriate and adequate for future grant plans, with no designated reserves held. The financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, with the Trustees anticipating the spend-down of resources to occur in 2029.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Rawlinson & Hunter Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2023) to £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Francesca Mott — CEO (source)
• Charles Lutyens — Chairman (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~32.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (94% 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: 62.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES PATRICK LUTYENSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ARCHIBALD GEOFFREY LOUDON
• Dr KATHERINE MARY O'REILLY
• Dr Marie Elizabeth Rabbett
• Luis Baertl

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

Operates in: Chile · Papua New Guinea · Peru · Philippines

Income and spending

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