REES FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1154019 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CORE ASSETS FOUNDATION · also registered in Scotland as SC054101 (OSCR)

For the public benefit, to relieve by such means as are charitable, children and adults who have had foster care or residential care experience by the provision of support, advice, resources, assistance (financial or otherwise), grants, programmes and other activities.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £22,096 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total income increasing to £878,034. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £405,811, exceeding the stated policy target of six months' essential expenditure, and cash at bank increased to £553,474.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rees Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Melody Douglas — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Jim Robinson — Chair (source)
• Matthew Williams — Director-level (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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/04/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jim Robinsonchair
• Hannah Howard-Jones
• Kirsty Jayne Watson
• Michael Patrick O'Hara
• Nicholas James Cook
• RUPERT CALVIN BERTIE
• Zoe Richardson · 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

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).