MARK EVISON FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1158382 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Mark Evison Foundation?s mission is to promote the personal development of young people 16-25 years through non-academic challenge, providing mentoring and expenses-funding for participants? proposed projects. These must be outside applicants? ?comfort zones?, and created from scratch. Beneficiaries become more confident, independent and resilient, and gain many transferable skills.

Objects

THE OBJECTS (THE "OBJECTS") OF THE CIO ARE TO FURTHER SUCH OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT AND, IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, TO PROMOTE THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN ACHIEVING THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AS RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS AND AS MEMBERS OF THEIR LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES (AND "PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT" MEANS PROMOTINGTHE PERSONAL, PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING OF THE INDIVIDUAL).

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Latest income
£116k
Latest spending
£142k
Registered
2014
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total assets decreased to £448,416 from £477,393 in the prior year, resulting in an operating deficit of £25,752. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £52,106 in its current account, alongside an investment fund valued at £396,310. The trustees' report indicates the Foundation continued to progress satisfactorily with its fundraising and award-giving activities during the period.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: continue building reserves over the medium term (reserves figure: £52k)
“The Foundation’s policy is to continue building reserves over the medium term (as an endowment fund) concurrent with increasing expenditure on grant-giving activities.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2025

  • Volunteers: 2

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2024

  • Volunteers: 4

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2023

  • Volunteers: 2
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£116k£142k
31/08/2024£91k£113k
31/08/2023£87k£117k
31/08/2022£59k£124k
31/08/2021£48k£70k

Common questions

Is MARK EVISON FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total assets decreased to £448,416 from £477,393 in the prior year, resulting in an operating deficit of £25,752. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £52,106 in its current account, alongside an investment fund valued at £396,310. The trustees' report indicates the Foundation continued to progress satisfactorily with its fundraising and award-giving activities during the period. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds MARK EVISON FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name MARK EVISON FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE TOBACCO PIPE MAKERS AND TOBACCO TRADE BENEVOLENT FUND, THE GROCERS' CHARITY, THE TIMOTHY FRANEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MARK MILSOME FOUNDATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
MARK EVISON FOUNDATION£116k—0unclear—no doubt
MARK MILSOME FOUNDATION FY2025£117k—0unclear—no doubt
MAKING A DIFFERENCE FY2025£30k—0unclear—no doubt
ESSEX YOUTH TRUST FY2025£88k—0unclear—no doubt
THE IOE FOUNDATION FY2025£50k—0unclear—no doubt
THE ERIC FRANK TRUST FY2024£22k—0unclear—no doubt

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