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

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2022 (received 16/05/2023, 16 days after the 30/04/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 12071118 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• KEMP, Sarah Louise — director, appointed 12/07/2026not on trustee list
• STEVENS, John Alexander — director, appointed 12/07/2026not on trustee list
• MUSSA, Raiha — director, appointed 31/05/2023on trustee list
• BARALT, Willem George — director, appointed 17/05/2023on trustee list
• COOPER, Alison Jayne — director, appointed 02/02/2022on trustee list
• TEMPEST, Roger Henry — director, appointed 18/06/2020on trustee list
• FEAN, Thomas Vincent, Sir — director, appointed 05/12/2019on trustee list
• MUSSA, Salaheddin Mohamad — director, appointed 26/06/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Salaheddin Mohamad Mussachair
• Alison Cooper
• Raiha Mussa
• Sir Thomas Vincent Fean
• Willem Baralt

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

Common questions

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.

Charities like this

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

• THE EDDLESTON SETTLEMENT income £34k
• FORSTERS CHARITABLE FUND income £56k
• THE CHELLARAM FOUNDATION income £5.6m
• MERRIMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £251k
• M I CHARITABLE TRUST income £21k
• THE GREENBERG FOUNDATION income £242k

Side by side with its peers

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