CHESTERTONS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1186541 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHESTERTONS FOUNDATION

Set up to achieve general charitable purposes by making grants and donations to organisations located throughout London and internationally

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£110k
Latest spending
£92k
Registered
2019
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £570,539, an increase from the previous year's £552,915. The trustees report that the closing free reserves stood at £570,594 after receiving a substantial donation of £110,000 from Chesterton Global Limited and incurring charitable expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters gave cause to believe the accounts were inaccurate or non-compliant.

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

What the accounts disclose

Payments to trustees: R Mussa was paid £16,239 for work undertaken as an employee.
“During the year R Mussa was an employee of the Charity and was paid £16,239 (2024: £38,000) in the period since becoming a trustee for work undertaken for the charity.” — page 11
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Donation from Chesterton Global Limited
“During the period the charity received £110,000 (2024 - £145,000) from a client money suspense account controlled by Chesterton Global Limited.” — page 15
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chestertons International Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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.

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2021)

Total income
£666k
Total spending
£67k
Reserves (reported)
£15k
Employees
1

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Barbados · Cayman Islands · Gibraltar · Malta · Mauritius · Portugal · Singapore · South Korea · Spain · St Lucia · Switzerland · Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£110k£92k
30/06/2024£149k£178k
30/06/2023£38k£129k
30/06/2022£304k£242k
30/06/2021£666k£67k

Common questions

Is CHESTERTONS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £570,539, an increase from the previous year's £552,915. The trustees report that the closing free reserves stood at £570,594 after receiving a substantial donation of £110,000 from Chesterton Global Limited and incurring charitable expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters gave cause to believe the accounts were inaccurate or non-compliant. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
NNS FOUNDATION1£193k
THE COLES-MEDLOCK FOUNDATION1£10k

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CHESTERTONS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION£110k—0unclear—no doubt
THE TANAGRA FOUNDATION FY2024£147k—0unclear—no doubt
SWIRE 2765 FY2024£2.2m—0above—no doubt
THE AMERICAN SCHOOL IN LONDON FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED FY2025£1.7m—0unclear—no doubt
CHAPEL & YORK UK FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2025£1.7m—0above—no doubt
BRIAN WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£126k—0above—no doubt

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