THE MORRISONS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1160224 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC045634 (OSCR)

The Morrisons Foundation was set up to provide financial support for registered charities. It awards grants for charity projects which improve people's lives and match funds the money that Morrisons colleagues raise for charity.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the financial statements give a true and fair view of the charitable company's affairs and have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice. The independent auditors concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the company's ability to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Catherine West MP ‘Delighted’ with support for TreeHouse School from the Morrisons Foundation london-post.co.uk · 06/11/2025
• St Wilfrid's Hospice Eastbourne ‘delighted’ with support from Morrisons Foundation ashdownradio.com · 25/10/2025

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 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 (100% 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: 4.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/12/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES DACRES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christine Bryce
• David Frazer John Scott
• Emily Swords
• Emma Spragg · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Jane Wilkinson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with G M MORRISON CHARITABLE TRUST.

• G M MORRISON CHARITABLE TRUST income £384k
• THE MILES MORLAND FOUNDATION income £235k
• THE BLUEBERRY FOUNDATION income £102k
• THE MORGAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £140k
• THE MIDDLETON FOUNDATION income £145k
• THE KEN & LYNNE MORRISON CHARITABLE TRUST income £540k

Side by side with its peers

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