THE WILBUR AND NISO SMITH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1161513 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

AS PER CIO DOCUMENT ; PRIMARILY EDUCATION, THE PROMOTION OF LITERACY AND READING.

Objects

1 TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS AND CULTURE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ART OF LITERATURE, AND TO EXTEND AND INCREASE APPRECIATION, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE SAME;2 TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO EDUCATION RELATING TO OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE ART OF LITERATURE;3 TO ADVANCE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT;AND (SAVE FOR PURPOSES INCIDENTAL AND ANCILLARY TO THOSE OBJECTS), NO OTHER PURPOSES.

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 · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves have decreased significantly to £27,443 from £116,901 in the prior year, following a period of expenditure exceeding income. The trustees note that the principal funder has ceased funding, creating a dependency on securing new resources, although they assert there are sufficient reserves for an orderly wind down if necessary. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis, with the trustees believing the charity can honour its liabilities as they fall due.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).
• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• MOKHINISO RAKHIMOVA-SMITH
• Mark Richard Alexander Sullivan
• Ruth Sorby
• Sebastian Davey

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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