COLUMBIA THREADNEEDLE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1158970 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE THREADNEEDLE FOUNDATION

The Foundation's strategic aim is to invest in the community by building partnerships with charities across a range of sectors, with a particular focus on charities that use education, art and sport to engender lasting social change.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £86,511, with the Trustees aiming to distribute the majority of donations within the financial year. The Foundation relies on donations from its parent group to meet charitable objectives, while the Member covers other operational costs. The auditors confirmed no material uncertainties regarding the entity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08825712

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.

• EKUNDARE, Marissa Teniola — director, appointed 23/09/2025on trustee list
• SCHOFIELD, Simon, Dr — director, appointed 10/05/2022on trustee list
• FIORI, Sophie Jane — director, appointed 10/05/2022on trustee list
• GEORGESCU, Andreea-Mihaela — director, appointed 10/05/2022on trustee list
• HASSABU, Selma — director, appointed 01/04/2020on trustee list
• PERRIN, James William — director, appointed 01/04/2020on trustee list
• BEARD, Marcus James — director, appointed 01/01/2020on trustee list
• COOK, Laura Annabel — director, appointed 01/01/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Laura Cookchair
• Andreea-Mihaela Georgescu
• Dr Simon Schofield
• James William Perrin
• Marcus James Beard
• Marissa Teniola Ekundare
• Selma Hassabu · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sophie Jane Fiori

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE BRISTOL SPORT FOUNDATION income £1.6m
• THE GENERATIONS FOUNDATION income £138k
• Community Foundation for Staffordshire and Shropshire income £4.6m
• THE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, ARTS AND CULTURE income £133k
• THE CYRIL TAYLOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £2.7m
• THE PATCH FOUNDATION CIO income £4.3m

Side by side with its peers

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