THE JANUS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1197949 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Foundation focuses its support around five themes: history and archaeology, the environment, arts and culture, local community and medical research The Foundation prioritises projects which are focused in a radius around Newenden In Kent but it is not restricted by geography.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £48,277 at the year end, which the trustees confirm meets their policy target of holding six months' operating costs due to very low administrative expenses. The charity reports a net decrease in funds of £2,792, driven by charitable expenditure exceeding income, and notes a dependency on securing future funding from a beneficiary to continue operations.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 13422409

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.

• BRIGHT, Kate — director, appointed 05/12/2024not on trustee list
• CRUSH, Kelly — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• COWLEY, Natasha — director, appointed 08/03/2022on trustee list
• WEYMOUTH, Simon James — director, appointed 20/07/2021on trustee list
• RICHARDSON, Andrew Frank, Dr — director, appointed 26/05/2021not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Andrew Frank Richardson FSAchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katherine Victoria Bright
• Kelly Crush · trustee of 1 other charity
• Natasha Cowley
• Rev Jacques Thomas Maurice Desrosiers
• Simon Weymouth

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE FOCUS FOUNDATION.

• THE FOCUS FOUNDATION income £1.6m
• KENT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.5m
• THE SCHRODER FOUNDATION income £2.2m
• THE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, ARTS AND CULTURE income £133k
• THE FRANCES AND AUGUSTUS NEWMAN FOUNDATION income £616k
• THE RUDDOCK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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