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.

Objects

THE ONLY OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE SUCH GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

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
• Nene Park Trust “Absolutely Delighted” by funding from the Morrisons Foundation peterboroughtoday.co.uk · 03/12/2024

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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

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Side by side with its peers

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