THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1153738 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ALLEN & OVERY FOUNDATION

The Foundation was established to provide donations for the benefit of any one or more qualified charities.

Objects

4.1 THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN ENGLAND AND WALES AND WORLDWIDE, INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO):4.1.1 THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED WHETHER BECAUSE OF POVERTY, YOUTH, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; 4.1.2 THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING AMONGST THOSE LEAST ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE EFFECTS OF A MAJOR NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL DISASTER, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE SUFFERING CAUSED AS A RESULT OF CONFLICT;4.1.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; 4.1.4 THE PROMOTION OF THE SOUND DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW; AND4.1.5 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC AND WHICH ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS STATED ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEE DIRECTORS SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION 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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £1,947,688, which exceeds the total grant commitments of £1,623,556. The trustees maintain that the Foundation has adequate financial resources to meet operational needs for at least 12 months, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Discloses 4 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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08636434

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.

• MARQUETTY, Hippolyte — director, appointed 30/06/2026on trustee list
• DANFORTH, Emma — director, appointed 01/11/2025on trustee list
• HINDOCHA, Rishi — director, appointed 01/11/2025on trustee list
• SKIFFINGTON, Sean James — director, appointed 01/05/2025on trustee list
• LONGLEY, Frances Ruth — director, appointed 01/07/2024on trustee list
• VAN DER BAAN, Hilde — director, appointed 06/08/2020not on trustee list
• JOHNSTON, Mary Elaine — director, appointed 09/07/2020on trustee list
• PAGE, Joanna Margaret — director, appointed 29/01/2020on trustee list
• HANNIGAN, Brendan — director, appointed 17/09/2019on trustee list
• CLIST, Angela Helen — director, appointed 16/04/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hilde van der Baanchair
• Angela Helen Clist
• Brendan Hannigan
• Emma Danforth
• Frances Ruth Longley
• Hippolyte Marquetty
• Joanna Margaret Page
• MARK JEREMY MANSELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mary Elaine Johnston
• Rishi Hindocha
• Sean James Skiffington

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

Operates in: Burkina Faso · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Chad · Ethiopia · Guinea · Kenya · Mali · Mauritania · Mozambique · Niger · Nigeria

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE ED SHEERAN FOUNDATION income £3.8m
• THE OAKLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £79k
• THE NEIL AND ALISON OSTRER FOUNDATION income £554k
• THE ALTENBURG FOUNDATION income £253k
• THE MILES MORLAND FOUNDATION income £235k
• THE HENRY STARNES CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT income £70k

Side by side with its peers

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