THE UNCONNECTED FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1198420 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Latest income
£988k
Latest spending
£800k
Registered
2022
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's gross income exceeded £250,000, triggering the requirement for an independent examination. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accorded with those records, with no matters coming to attention that would prevent a proper understanding of the accounts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none
“The financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the trust deed and the Charities SORP (FRS 102) (effective 01 January 2015).” — page 7
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

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

Total income
£988k
Total spending
£800k
Reserves (reported)
£607k
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~9.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Colombia · France · India · Indonesia · Kenya · Malaysia · Mexico · Nigeria · South Africa · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda · Ukraine

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£988k£800k
31/12/2024£840k£563k
31/12/2023£985k£771k
31/12/2022£896k£817k

Common questions

Is THE UNCONNECTED FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity's gross income exceeded £250,000, triggering the requirement for an independent examination. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accorded with those records, with no matters coming to attention that would prevent a proper understanding of the accounts. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE UNCONNECTED FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE UNCONNECTED FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE GSR FOUNDATION, THE CARMELA & RONNIE PIGNATELLI FOUNDATION, GILCHRIST EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE GSR FOUNDATIONFY2024£32k
THE CARMELA & RONNIE PIGNATELLI FOUNDATIONFY2025£3k
GILCHRIST EDUCATIONAL TRUSTFY2025£1kGrant to organisation

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
City Bridge Foundation11/08/2023£0Grant to THE UNCONNECTED FOUNDATION

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 Connection Support.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE UNCONNECTED FOUNDATION£988k—0unclear—no doubt
Connection Support FY2025£10.1m—0within0.6%no doubt
ONLY CONNECT UK FY2025£344k—0unclear—noted
RECONNECT FY2024£150k—0below5.3%no doubt
The Connolly Foundation (UK) Limited FY2025£14.0m£170,001 - £180,000—unclear—no doubt
REACHING THE UNREACHED FY2025£773k—0unclear—no doubt

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