THE INDEPENDENT PRESS REGULATION TRUST

Registered charity 1162737 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IPRT

The Charity promotes for the benefit of the public, high standards of ethical conduct and best practice in journalism.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, HIGH STANDARDS OF ETHICAL CONDUCT AND BEST PRACTICE IN JOURNALISM AND THE EDITING AND PUBLICATION OF NEWS IN THE PRINT AND OTHER MEDIA, HAVING REGARD TO THE NEED TO ACT WITHIN THE LAW AND TO PROTECT BOTH THE PRIVACY OF INDIVIDUALS AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

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

Causes: Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · 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 the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £93,018.66, an increase from the previous year's £58,755.29. The charity relies solely on donations for funding and has no staff or fundraising activities. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burgess Hodgson Audit Limited. Discloses 4 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 handling
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Regulator actions

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Wilfrid Edward Vernor-Mileschair · trustee of 10 other charities
• Dr Alan Hirst
• Vojislav Mihailovic

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.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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.

Charities like this

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

• THE MEDIA TRUST income £1.9m
• THE PUBLIC INTEREST FOUNDATION income £209k
• M I CHARITABLE TRUST income £21k
• ARTICLE 19 income £15.3m
• INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS GUILD income £1.1m
• GOODNEWS AID income £176k

Side by side with its peers

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