THE POWELL FAMILY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1190017 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Making grants to individuals and charitable organisations to advance the life prospects, independence and education of blind and vision impaired children, young people and adults aged 25 and under who are resident in the United Kingdom.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £502,596 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £51,469,737 to £50,967,141. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £3,767,876 remain in excess of their stated policy target, which is defined as the value of forward grant commitments and operating expenses payable in the following six months. The charity maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence 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 Sayers Butterworth LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

38 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (38 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~21.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (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: 25.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Peter Mittell Curtischair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Abigail Sayagh
• Alison Kate Oliver
• DAVID BOULTON GENDERS
• Daniel James Swain
• David Aldwinckle
• John Renshaw
• John Turnbull
• Steven Barton

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INFOCUS CHARITY.

• INFOCUS CHARITY income £10.6m
• BLIND CHILDREN UK income £328k
• VICTA CHILDREN LTD income £1.2m
• WILTSHIRE BLIND ASSOCIATION income £222k
• THE PARTIALLY SIGHTED SOCIETY income £410k
• THE WILL CHARITABLE TRUST income £520k

Side by side with its peers

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