COHERE CHARITY

Registered charity 1153638 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as XAVIER PROJECT

Cohere aims to promote, facilitate, and advocate for the shared aims of communities affected by global forced displacement. Through Grant making, Capacity Sharing, Coordination and Advocacy to Refugee Lead Organisation.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.8m

Latest spending

£1.8m

Registered

2013

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £3.11m, driven by a significant rise in restricted funds, while unrestricted reserves fell to £2.08m. The charity reported a net surplus for the year and confirmed it has adequate resources to continue operating as a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Trading subsidiary: Turaco Valley Food Limited

“The Charity's subsidiaries include Turaco Valley Food Limited, Cohere Uganda and Cohere Kenya.” — page 40

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Edmund Page — CEO & Founder (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.

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

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

Total income

£1.8m

Total spending

£1.8m

Cost of raising funds

£224k

Reserves (reported)

£1.1m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (84% 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: 12.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

CLIVE MATTHEW HOPEWELL
Cassandra Wairimu Kiereini
Dr Philippa Harris
Grazia Tiffany Borzi
HAMISH DAVID NEIL BARNABAS REID
William John Beynon
Zeeshan Ahmed Longi

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

Operates in: Kenya · Uganda

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£1.8m	£1.8m
31/12/2023	£2.0m	£1.8m
31/12/2022	£3.8m	£1.2m
31/12/2021	£725k	£769k
31/12/2020	£655k	£610k

Common questions

Is COHERE CHARITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that total funds increased to £3.11m, driven by a significant rise in restricted funds, while unrestricted reserves fell to £2.08m. The charity reported a net surplus for the year and confirmed it has adequate resources to continue operating as a going concern with no material uncertainties. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by MHA Audit Services LLP.

Who funds COHERE CHARITY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name COHERE CHARITY as a grant recipient include THE BARTLETT FOUNDATION, The Queen Elizabeth II Commonwealth Trust.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE BARTLETT FOUNDATION	FY2023	£60k	Grants for Further Education and Charitable Causes
THE BARTLETT FOUNDATION	FY2025	£40k	Grants for Further Education and Charitable Causes
THE BARTLETT FOUNDATION	FY2024	£13k
The Queen Elizabeth II Commonwealth Trust	FY2022	£4k

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£185k
TRUST FOR LONDON	2	£151k
DISRUPT FOUNDATION	2	£103k
THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUST	2	£2k
JUSTICE COLLABORATIONS	1	£410k
THE JOSEPH ROWNTREE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£280k
JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION	1	£150k
THE LEGAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION	1	£132k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RESET COMMUNITIES AND REFUGEES LTD.

RESET COMMUNITIES AND REFUGEES LTD income £504k
SUPPORTING HOMELESS, ASSISTING REFUGEES EVERYWHERE income £131k
REVIVE CIO income £358k
SANCTUARY FOUNDATION income £100k
COMPASS COLLECTIVE income £215k
REFUGEE ROOTS income £326k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
COHERE CHARITY	£1.8m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
RESET COMMUNITIES AND REFUGEES LTD FY2025	£504k	—	within	—	noted
SUPPORTING HOMELESS, ASSISTING REFUGEES EVERYWHERE FY2025	£131k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
REVIVE CIO FY2025	£358k	—	below	—	no doubt
SANCTUARY FOUNDATION FY2025	£100k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
COMPASS COLLECTIVE FY2025	£215k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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