OKRE: OPENING KNOWLEDGE ACROSS RESEARCH AND ENTERTAINMENT

Registered charity 1189257 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OKRE

1. Research: a) Undertaking work into representations of issues and communities in media; b) Supporting research to benefit from media innovations. 2. Networks: facilitating connections across research, media and social impact sectors. 3. Events: that inspire ideas around social, scientific and health-related issues. 4. Funding: providing grants to support early cross-sector collaborations.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held £273,648 in unrestricted reserves, which is below its stated policy target of six months' core costs. However, the trustees report that the charity remains in a strong financial position due to a seven-year funding commitment covering core costs and confirmed adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sedulo Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 12566700

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.

• LEE, Stephen Soo — director, appointed 09/10/2024on trustee list
• RYAN, Christine, Dame — director, appointed 16/02/2023on trustee list
• BRADLEY, Jonathan Patrick Frederik — director, appointed 06/05/2021on trustee list
• CLARE, Laura — director, appointed 06/05/2021on trustee list
• BUTTON-BROWN, Nicholas Michael — director, appointed 21/04/2020not on trustee list
• GIBBONS, Philomena — director, appointed 21/04/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dame Christine Ryan
• Jonathan Patrick Frederick Bradley
• Laura Clare
• Nicholas Michael Button-Brown MBA
• PHILOMENA GIBBONS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Soo Lee

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

Operates in: France · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY LIMITED.

• OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY LIMITED income £1.4m
• AOUK & I income £278k
• THE SOCIAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION income £690k
• ONE KIND ACT income £534k
• CENTER ON LONG-TERM RISK income £2.3m
• ASIT EVENTS LTD income £486k

Side by side with its peers

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