BRITISH FASHION COUNCIL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1185152 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Education/trainingThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyArts/culture/heritage/scienceEconomic/community Development/employment

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is in strong financial health with unrestricted reserves of £6,264,049, which exceed the trustees' stated policy target of £5 million. The trustees have confirmed that the charity has sufficient working capital for the foreseeable future and prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11917315

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.

• WEIR, Laura Leanne — director, appointed 28/04/2025on trustee list
• FONYONGA, Andin — director, appointed 15/04/2024on trustee list
• PEMSEL, David Skipwith — director, appointed 09/09/2022on trustee list
• BATTY, Pamela Joy — director, appointed 30/04/2022not on trustee list
• DAVIDSON, Laura Maria — director, appointed 01/04/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~37.4 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 (92% 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 (19/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andin Fonyonga
• David Pemsel
• Laura Davidson
• Laura Weir
• Pam Batty

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

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

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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