THE ORWELL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1161563 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q30674816 · Wikipedia · also known as THE ORWELL PRIZE

PROVISION OF ANNUAL PRIZES, CULTURAL EVENTS AND DEBATES

Objects

The objects of the CIO are: 1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE PROVISION OF CULTURAL EVENTS, DEBATES, ONLINE RESOURCES, AND ANNUAL PRIZES. 2. THE PROMOTION OF THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves fell to £46,353 from £120,988 in the prior year, a decline attributed to spending down reserves after being turned down for grants due to previously high reserve levels. The trustees note the charity is operating in a challenging fundraising environment but confirm adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/04/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lord Nigel Kim Darroch KCMGchair
• Andrew Peck
• Deborah Lincoln
• Gavin Kelly
• Jack Sedman
• Kamran Abbasi
• Najma Finlay
• Stephen Armstrong

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · 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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROWLEY TRUST.

• ROWLEY TRUST income £43k
• C R BURRELL'S CHARITY TRUST income £37k
• THE GARL FOUNDATION income £78k
• EXCEL FUND income £33k
• THE BARTLETT TAYLOR CHARITABLE TRUST income £96k
• THE ORRELL TRUST income £115k

Side by side with its peers

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