THE SHANLY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1182155 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Shanly Foundation makes awards to organisations in South East England that work for community benefit, including: Children & young people, the elderly, people with disabilities and other charities or voluntary bodies.The Shanly Foundation was established in 1997 under previous charity number 1065044. In 2018, it updated its legal structure and registered with a new charity number 1182155.

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Latest income

£1.9m

Latest spending

£2.1m

Registered

2019

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £2,831,523 to £2,654,586 due to net expenditure exceeding income. The trustees maintain a policy of holding free reserves sufficient to meet management costs and respond to grant applications, without specifying a fixed monetary target or duration. The auditor confirmed the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: Under £60,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)

“There were no employees whose annual remuneration was more than £60,000.” — page 18

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: a level which enables the Foundation to meet its management and administration costs and to be able to respond to approved applications for grants which arise from time to time (held: £2.7m)

“It is the policy of the Foundation to maintain unrestricted funds, which are the free reserves of the foundation at a level which enables the Foundation to meet its management and administration costs and to be able to respond to approved applications for grants which arise from time to time.” — page 4

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Henton & Co LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Michael Shanly — Chairman (source)
Tamra Booth — Deputy Chair (source)

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Shanly Group of companies — “Shanly Foundation is a grant-giving charity funded by the Shanly Group of companies.” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Total income

£1.9m

Total spending

£2.1m

Reserves (reported)

£2.7m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~15.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (18/02/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

MICHAEL JAMES SHANLYchair
Nicholas John Young · trustee of 2 other charities
Nicholas Mark Trott
TAMRA MICHELLE BOOTH
TIMOTHY JAMES POTTER

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire · Kent · Oxfordshire · Reading · Surrey · West Berkshire · West Sussex · Windsor And Maidenhead

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£1.9m	£2.1m
31/12/2023	£1.4m	£1.8m
31/12/2022	£1.3m	£1.4m
31/12/2021	£568k	£843k
31/12/2020	£1.6m	£971k

Common questions

Is THE SHANLY FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £2,831,523 to £2,654,586 due to net expenditure exceeding income. The trustees maintain a policy of holding free reserves sufficient to meet management costs and respond to grant applications, without specifying a fixed monetary target or duration. The auditor confirmed the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Henton & Co LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of THE SHANLY FOUNDATION earn?

Per its FY2024 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the Under £60,000 band.

Who funds THE SHANLY FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE SHANLY FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include SUICIDE & CO, THE TIM HENMAN FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
SUICIDE & CO	FY2024	£2k	Counselling
THE TIM HENMAN FOUNDATION	FY2025	£2k	Donations from corporations and trusts

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE HAPPY BABY COMMUNITY	1	£29k
ONE FOOTSTEP	1	£25k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE, FULWELL	1	£10k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETER AND ST LEONARD, HORBURY WITH ST JOHN, HORBURY BRIDGE	1	£4k

Charities like this

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

THE SHANTA FOUNDATION income £736k
THE SHANLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £224k
THE CLARKSON FOUNDATION income £2.0m
Bernard Sunley Foundation income £3.0m
CLANCY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £111k
THE LANCASHIRE FOUNDATION income £956k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE SHANLY FOUNDATION	£1.9m	Under £60,000	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE SHANTA FOUNDATION FY2025	£736k	—	0	unclear	—	noted
THE SHANLEY CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£224k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CLARKSON FOUNDATION FY2023	£2.0m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Bernard Sunley Foundation FY2025	£3.0m	£100,001 - £110,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
CLANCY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FY2025	£111k	—	0	within	—	no doubt

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