PUBLIC INTEREST NEWS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1191397 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Public Interest News Foundation (PINF) operates in the UK and works to promote public understanding and knowledge of the principles and practice of investigating, reporting and disseminating Public Interest News; promote citizenship and civic responsibility and encourage informed participation and engagement by the public; promote high standards of ethical conduct and best practice in journalism.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: - TO PROMOTE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF INVESTIGATING, REPORTING AND DISSEMINATING PUBLIC INTEREST NEWS, INCLUDING RELEVANT LAW, ETHICS, CODES OF CONDUCT AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF RELATED ACTIVITIES; - TO PROMOTE CITIZENSHIP AND CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY AND ENCOURAGE AND FACILITATE INFORMED PARTICIPATION AND ENGAGEMENT BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN THEIR COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING BY SUPPORTING THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC INTEREST NEWS BY EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE MEANS; AND- TO PROMOTE HIGH STANDARDS OF ETHICAL CONDUCT AND BEST PRACTICE IN JOURNALISM AND THE EDITING AND PUBLICATION OF NEWS IN THE PRINT AND OTHER MEDIA FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, HAVING REGARD TO THE NEED TO ACT WITHIN THE LAW AND TO PROTECT BOTH THE PRIVACY OF INDIVIDUALS AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £105,535 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £168,072 to £62,537. The trustees state that free reserves of £7,034 were held at year-end, which is below the stated policy target of covering three months of support costs (approximately £19,300). However, the accounts note that sufficient unrestricted funding was secured after the year end to maintain reserves above the minimum required level.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 31/03/2025, 59 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 08/07/2022, 158 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Regulator actions

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 12320800

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.

• JEEVAN, Meera — director, appointed 21/07/2026on trustee list
• WESTHEAD, James Patrick — director, appointed 21/07/2026on trustee list
• GOW, Alison Sarah — director, appointed 28/07/2023on trustee list
• CURTIS, Polly Elizabeth — director, appointed 16/03/2022on trustee list
• WEINBERG, Julius Rolf, Dr — director, appointed 12/06/2020on trustee list
• ROUGHOL, Isabelle — director, appointed 01/04/2020on trustee list
• ADETUNJI, Joan Hannah Oluwayemisi — director, appointed 18/11/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Sarah Gow
• Isabelle Roughol
• JAMES PATRICK WESTHEAD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joan Hannah Oluwayemisi Adetunji
• Meera Jeevan
• Polly Elizabeth Curtis
• Rachel Anne McCafferty

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH CENTRE LIMITED.

• PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH CENTRE LIMITED income £176k
• PRIVACY INTERNATIONAL income £1.8m
• THE PINE FOUNDATION income £72k
• THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH income £201k
• PATIENT INFORMATION FORUM income £359k
• THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC FINANCE AND ACCOUNTANCY income £26.1m

Side by side with its peers

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