THE RANK PRIZE FUNDS

Registered charity 1183866 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RANK PRIZE FUND, THE RANK PRIZE FUND

The objectives of the Funds include the advancement and promotion for the public benefit of knowledge, education and learning in all or any of the following sciences: Crop husbandry; Human nutrition; Animal nutrition; and the inter-face between optics and electronics and related phenomena.The Funds operate throughout England, Wales and Scotland.

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Latest income

£425k

Latest spending

£918k

Registered

2019

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £24.8m, which the trustees view as a quasi-endowment necessary to maintain continued grant giving. The charity is funded by investment income and gains, with total income of £425k and net gains on investments of £1,677k contributing to a total net income of £1,183k. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to meet its liabilities and continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £80,001 - £90,000 — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median £60k)

“£80,001 - £90,000 – 1 employee” — page 25

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 1

“The number of employees whose emoluments for the year were over £60,000 was: £80,001 - £90,000 – 1 employee” — page 25

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 11675628

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

BOUNTRA, Charanjit, Professor — director, appointed 23/10/2025on trustee list
BURNETT, Keith — director, appointed 23/10/2025on trustee list
MADDEN-SMITH, Claire Elizabeth — director, appointed 21/05/2024on trustee list
COWEN, Andrew Edward — director, appointed 13/12/2022on trustee list
HIGGINS, Julia Stretton, Professor — director, appointed 21/01/2020on trustee list
COWEN, Stuart Huxley — director, appointed 13/11/2018on trustee list
BRADLEY, Donal Donat Conor, Professor — director, appointed 13/11/2018on trustee list
MATHERS, John Cummings, Professor — director, appointed 13/11/2018on trustee list
TAYLOR, Carol Susan — director, appointed 13/11/2018on trustee list
WAKEHAM, William Arnot, Professor Sir — director, appointed 13/11/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

Received assets from another charity (26/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Colonel Stuart Huxley Cowenchair
ANDREW EDWARD COWEN
Carol Susan Taylor
Dr Claire Madden-Smith
PROFESSOR WILLIAM ARNOT WAKEHAM
Professor Charanjit Bountra
Professor Donal Bradley
Professor John Cummings Mathers
Professor Julia Stretton Higgins
Professor Keith Burnett · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£425k	£918k
31/12/2024	£486k	£952k
31/12/2023	£408k	£862k
31/12/2022	£353k	£869k
31/12/2021	£288k	£869k

Common questions

Is THE RANK PRIZE FUNDS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £24.8m, which the trustees view as a quasi-endowment necessary to maintain continued grant giving. The charity is funded by investment income and gains, with total income of £425k and net gains on investments of £1,677k contributing to a total net income of £1,183k. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to meet its liabilities and continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by MHA.

What does the highest-paid employee of THE RANK PRIZE FUNDS earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £80,001 - £90,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

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
SUICIDE & CO	1	£30k
FONTHILL FOUNDATION	1	£18k
JOHN JACKSON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£14k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. JUDE, SOUTHSEA	1	£10k
BRIGHOUSE WEST YORKSHIRE AREA QUAKER MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) IN BRITAIN	1	£8k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CANFORD MAGNA	1	£2k
THE PENCHANT FOUNDATION	1	£250

Charities like this

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

THE RANK FOUNDATION LIMITED income £14.2m
THE JOSEPH RANK TRUST income £2.9m
THE FARMERS' COMPANY CHARITABLE FUND income £318k
Prept. Foundation income £284k
THE NFU MUTUAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.0m
CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY income £988k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE RANK PRIZE FUNDS	£425k	£80,001 - £90,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
THE RANK FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2025	£14.2m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE JOSEPH RANK TRUST FY2025	£2.9m	£120,001 - £130,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
THE FARMERS' COMPANY CHARITABLE FUND FY2025	£318k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
Prept. Foundation FY2025	£284k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE NFU MUTUAL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024	£1.0m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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