THE ROYAL FREE CHARITY

Registered charity 1165672 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted free reserves were negative £3.1m at the year-end, a position the trustees attribute to pandemic-related challenges and investment performance. However, the trustees report that this negative position does not pose liquidity or solvency issues due to comfortable cash balances and unencumbered property holdings, and they are on track to achieve compliance with their reserves policy within five years.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Royal Free Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• Alison Munday
• Gillian Louise Smith
• Judy Frances Dewinter
• Julie Ann Hamilton
• Melanie Laura Sherwood
• Peter Landstrom
• RUSSELL BROOKS
• Simon Lyons
• Stephen John Craig
• Valerie Celia Jolliffe

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

Operates in: Barnet · Camden · Enfield · Haringey

Income and spending

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