THE ACCESS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1194267 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To support organisations who have as a key objective the mitigation of the digital divide, by making computing facilities, support and/or learning available to disadvantaged and vulnerable people.To support charities who have been chosen or shortlisted as the Access Group charities of the year.To support charities who have a strong emotional connection with a member of staff of the Access

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO PAY OR APPLY THE INCOME, AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL, AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER TO, OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF, SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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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Registered contact address: Charnwood, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £12,932,487, which the trustees describe as strong cash reserves. The trustees' report indicates that these reserves, along with anticipated future funding from share sales, are sufficient to cover anticipated grant awards and operational expenditure for a period of 5 years.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WR Partners. Discloses 5 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (87% 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: 5.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT NEIL PARKINSONchair
• IAN LITTLE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Kevin Gregory Misselbrook
• Manesh Rajanikant Patel
• Memoria Florence Richenda May Lewis
• PIERS CASWELL MCLEISH
• Robert Hugh Binns

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

Operates in: Australia · Ireland · Malaysia · New Zealand · Romania · 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 ACCESS - THE FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL INVESTMENT.

• ACCESS - THE FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL INVESTMENT income £12.5m
• ABILITYNET income £5.0m
• THE IAN KARTEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £447k
• AXIS FOUNDATION income £490k
• THE DEVIZES AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATION FOR THE DISABLED income £31k
• CONTACT A FAMILY income £8.8m

Side by side with its peers

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