THE WOOSNAM FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1171136 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Charitable Giving to all worthwhile causes including Cancer Research All Medical needs and Animal welfare

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD AND APPLY ALL OR PART OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND FOR SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THEY SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves increased to £3,974,830, supported by total income of £586,775 and net investment gains of £258,810. The trustees maintain a reserves policy aimed at allowing grant levels to increase with inflation, and the independent auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability 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 audited by Harris & Trotter LLP. 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Reported reserves equal ~160.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL STEWART FELDMANchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Anthony Burman · trustee of 9 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE CHRIS BANTON FOUNDATION income £14.9m
• THE WO STREET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £504k
• THE A AND R WOOLF CHARITABLE TRUST income £127k
• THE CHARLES WOLFSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £3.5m
• THE CANCER TREATMENT AND RESEARCH TRUST CIO income £502k
• THE E C SOSNOW CHARITABLE 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.