Gerard Basset Foundation

Registered charity 1193020 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE GERARD BASSET WINE EDUCATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

For the public benefit to advance education and training of young professionals entering the Wine, Hospitality and Spirits industries, by providing internship programmes for BIPOP/BAME and other students.

Objects

For the public benefit to advance education and training of young professionals entering the wine, spirit and hospitality industries, by providing financial support for students (including those from BIPOP/BAME backgrounds) to study for the Master of Wine, Master Sommelier or other industry-recognised qualifications.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves increased to £1,006,386, with a reserves policy to hold enough funds to cover liabilities through the end of the next financial year. The trustees note a risk regarding reliance on the Golden Vines auction for fundraising but highlight steps taken to diversify income streams.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fiander ETL. Discloses 6 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Gérard Basset Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ian Harris — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Nina Basset — Co-Founding Trustee (source)
• Romané Basset — Head of Operations; Co-Founding Trustee (source)
• Jancis Robinson — Trustee (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Liquid Icons — “We would like to give special thanks to Liquid Icons Productions for their constant support of the Gérard Basset Foundation since our foundi…” (source page)
• Thomson & Scott — “We are therefore thrilled to share that Thomson & Scott have chosen to partner with us and support our grantee programme!” (source page)
• Champagne Laurent-Perrier — “Champagne Laurent-Perrier has partnered with the Gérard Basset Foundation to create a brand new scholarship programme.” (source page)
• Tiny Wine — “Tiny Wine have generously pledged 10% of their profits to go towards the work of the Gérard Basset Foundation.” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~11.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (98% 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: 21.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nina Bassetchair
• Ian Michael Harris
• Jancis Robinson
• Romane Basset

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · France · Portugal · South Africa · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Academie du Vin Foundation.

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Side by side with its peers

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