THE CHARLES RUSSELL SPEECHLYS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1188257 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity makes grants in furtherance of its charitable purposes

Objects

THE OBJECTS ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND & WALES) AS THE CHARITY 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) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £460,412, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of approximately six months of known charitable expenditure (£279,000). The charity reported a net movement in funds of £81,348, driven primarily by donations from Charles Russell Speechlys LLP, while total charitable expenditure amounted to £558,051.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Charles Russell Speechlys Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Michael Mckeown Collins
• BARTHOLOMEW GUY PEERLESS · trustee of 7 other charities
• Katy Crothall
• Larissa Joy · trustee of 2 other charities
• Naomi Neiland
• Olakemi Ademojure Olafare
• Suzanne Michelle Gatward
• Tamasin Fairlie Perkins

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 ROCKLEY CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE ROCKLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £89k
• THE CHARTLEY FOUNDATION income £235k
• THE CHARTERHOUSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £58k
• THE RICHARD HARRIS CHARITABLE TRUST income £163k
• THE ALEXANDER MOSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £5.8m
• HON CHARLES PEARSON CHARITY TRUST income £76k

Side by side with its peers

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