DUKES FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1197007 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To change lives, create opportunities and spread hope by connecting children, families and the communities to the passionate and empowering spirit at the heart of Dukes

Objects

TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNGER PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 25 (BUT NOT NECESSARILY RESTRICTED TO THAT GROUP) IN THE UK AND OVERSEAS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES THAT ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:-- AWARDING TO SUCH PERSONS SCHOLARSHIPS, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES OR GRANTS TENABLE AT ANY UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OR INSTITUTION OF PRIMARY, HIGHER OR FURTHER EDUCATION;- ASSISTING IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SEE FIT ANY CHARITY OR COMMUNITY ORGANISATION IN THE UK WHOSE AIMS INCLUDE ADVANCING EDUCATION AND THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE INTERESTS OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE OF YOUNGER PEOPLE.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure for the year, resulting in unrestricted funds falling to a negative £31,039 and free reserves at negative £42,424. The trustees attribute this largely to the accrual of grant liabilities and note that additional funding from Dukes Education has ensured working capital remains sufficient. They confirm the charity continues to operate as a going concern, with plans to rebuild reserves through further fundraising activities.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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

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 3 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 05/06/2025, 125 days after the 31/01/2025 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aatif Naveed Hassanchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David William Goodhew · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: 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 DUKE UK TRUST LIMITED.

• DUKE UK TRUST LIMITED income £298k
• UK GIVES LTD income £1.5m
• THE DUKIES FOUNDATION income £87k
• DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S CHARITABLE TRUST income £256k
• KINGS ACTIVE FOUNDATION income £2.5m
• CAUSEWAY EDUCATION LTD income £772k

Side by side with its peers

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