THE TALENT FUND

Registered charity 1185346 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Raising funds, giving philanthropic advice and making grants to combat poverty and disadvantage and promote social justice and sustainability. All grants awarded go through an expert assessment process to make sure they address a genuine need, have realistic goals, efficient and professional management, good governance and the tools for measurement and effective reporting.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.

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: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £277,049 exceed the trustees' policy target of 18 months of operational costs. The charity reported a net expenditure of £179,700 for the year, funded by total incoming resources of £1,440,799. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lawes & Co UK Limited. Discloses 5 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Bob Willis Fund - The Talent Fund (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kevin Cahill CBE — Founder & Trustee (source)
• Paul Amadi MBE — Trustee (source)
• Katerina Capras — Trustee (source)
• Caroline Lien — Trustee (source)
• Meera Naik — Trustee (source)
• Clare Pizey — Trustee (source)
• Peter Salmon — Trustee (source)
• Colin Simon — Trustee (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Mary Lien
• Clare Elizabeth Pizey
• Colin Terence Maitland Simon · trustee of 3 other charities
• Katerina Irene Capras
• Kevin James Patrick Cahill CBE
• Meera Naik
• PAUL AMADI
• Peter Salmon

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TALENT FOUNDRY TRUST.

• THE TALENT FOUNDRY TRUST income £2.0m
• THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTION income £1.1m
• THE REAL GOOD FOUNDATION income £28k
• THE PENDLE FOUNDATION income £48k
• TIME AND TALENTS ASSOCIATION income £616k
• THINK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £50k

Side by side with its peers

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