THE ALTENBURG FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1170216 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE RUSI TRUST

The Trustees intend to make donations or grants to charitable and other organisations for the delivery of exclusively charitable projects aimed at the advancement of education, citizenship or community development and or amateur sport,

Objects

AS PER CLAUSE 3 OF THE CHARITY'S TRUST DEED THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME FOR OR TOWARDS:3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION;3.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR SPORT; AND ALL OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DECIDE."CHARITABLE PURPOSES" IS DEFINED AS PURPOSES WHICH ARE WHOLLY AND EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

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 · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £4,904,798, driven by investment revaluations, while free cash reserves stood at £520,107. The Trustees consider the level of reserves appropriate to meet current activities and confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the Charity's ability to continue in operational existence.

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

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2025 (received 12/02/2026, 7 days after the 05/02/2026 due date); year ending 05/04/2024 (received 12/03/2025, 35 days after the 05/02/2025 due date); year ending 05/04/2021 (received 25/05/2022, 109 days after the 05/02/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTIANE ALTENBURG-VON DER GOLTZchair
• ANABEL ALTENBURG
• Dr KARL-GEORG ALTENBURG

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 ADLIB FOUNDATION.

• ADLIB FOUNDATION income £61k
• AL Philanthropies income £25.6m
• THE ATHERTON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £99k
• THE ANBER FUND income £38k
• The Aylesburian Annual Fund income £585k
• THE FOLLETT TRUST income £65k

Side by side with its peers

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