BUPA FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1162759 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BUPA UK FOUNDATION

The Bupa Foundation runs and helps fund practical projects that help to create healthier communities. Our health, and the health of the places we live, are deeply connected. So we help local communities to run projects that look after both.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is solely funded by Bupa and is not reliant on fundraising or public donations. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £706,300 and cash reserves of £786,300, which are considered adequate to meet financial commitments for at least twelve months. The trustees believe the charity is well placed to manage its financial risks successfully.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Menzies LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Stuart Brown — Chair (source)
• Angelique Waker — Co-Vice Chair (source)
• James O'Reilly — CEO (source)
• Anna Russell — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Bupa UK — “The Bupa Foundation receives its funding entirely from Bupa UK.” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 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 (99% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angelique Waker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Neil Kumar Sikka
• James Michael OReilly
• Michelle Smith
• Shweta Narayan
• Stuart Turner Brown
• Yasmin Rabie Ali Mahfouz
• Zelina Harrington-Greenwood

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE HEALTH FOUNDATION income £22.2m
• THE FOCUS FOUNDATION income £1.6m
• BUKHMAN FOUNDATION income £2.6m
• B&Q Foundation income £2.8m
• FOUNDATION OF LIGHT income £5.6m
• THE BURBERRY FOUNDATION income £2.1m

Side by side with its peers

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