THE OLWYN FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1179306 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Olwyn Foundation raises funds for charitable organisations set up for the benefit of the empowerment, education and protection of women and girls both in the UK and around the world.

Objects

TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME BY, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO MAKING GRANTS TO CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £27,531 for the year, resulting in a net cash reserve of £93,149 at year-end. The trustees consider this reserve sufficient to cover estimated known overheads and provide a buffer for unanticipated costs. The charity is currently in a transitional period, seeking to broaden its donor base after relying heavily on a founder donor.

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 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Social media 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• SAMANTHA OLWEN ROWE-BEDDOEchair
• PATRICIA JANE GREEN
• SAMANTHA VICTORIA MERRY

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 WOW FOUNDATION.

• THE WOW FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• WOMEN IN WALES income £63k
• WELLBEING OF WOMEN income £2.4m
• THE BEVAN FOUNDATION income £620k
• Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institute income £189k
• OLIVIA SIEFF FOUNDATION income £11k

Side by side with its peers

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