THE GEORG AND EMILY VON OPEL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1172977 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£1.9m
Latest spending
£1.9m
Registered
2017
Accounts read
FY2023

Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit on incoming resources of £534,096, resulting in closing unrestricted funds of £314,166. The trustees report that the principal source of funding is donations from a trustee and that no reserves policy is deemed necessary due to low running costs.

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Donations totalling £1,614,330 (inclusive of related gift aid) were receivable in the year from Georg von Opel (2022 - £2,366,509) none of which were outstanding at the year end (2022 - none). Other debtors includes £nil (2022 - £30,000) owed to the Foundation from Georg Von Opel. This was repaid on 12th October 2023.
Donations totalling £1,614,330 (inclusive of related gift aid) were receivable in the year from Georg von Opel (2022 - £2,366,509) none of which were outstanding at the year end (2022 - none). Other debtors includes £nil (2022 - £30,000) owed to the Foundation from Georg Von Opel. This was repaid on 12th October 2023. — page 23
Per its FY2023 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income
£1.9m
Total spending
£1.9m
Reserves (reported)
£366k
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Trustees

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Switzerland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£1.9m£1.9m
31/12/2023£1.6m£2.1m
31/12/2022£2.4m£1.8m
31/12/2021£1.8m£2.1m
31/12/2020£1.2m£796k

Common questions

Is THE GEORG AND EMILY VON OPEL FOUNDATION financially healthy?

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit on incoming resources of £534,096, resulting in closing unrestricted funds of £314,166. The trustees report that the principal source of funding is donations from a trustee and that no reserves policy is deemed necessary due to low running costs. Its FY2023 accounts were audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited.

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