THE SOHO HOUSE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1199179 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Soho House Foundation provides resources to fund and empower creative people from underrepresented and lower socioeconomic backgrounds. We run an international grant programme to support organisations working to help young people through creativity. We also work separately with selected partners in our local communities, and to aid disaster relief.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO ADVANCE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY MAKING GRANTS TO OTHER CHARITIES, ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS TO:3.1 ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF THE ARTS; 3.2 RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BECAUSE OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE;3.3 RELIEVE FINANCIAL NEED AND SUFFERING AMONG VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR OTHER KINDS OF DISASTER IN THE FORM OF MONEY (OR OTHER MEANS DEEMED SUITABLE) FOR PERSONS, BODIES, ORGANISATIONS AND/OR COUNTRIES AFFECTED.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · 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 held unrestricted reserves of £28,740 at the end of the financial year, a decrease from the previous year's £29,914. The charity received £100,000 in donations from Soho House Limited, which was fully expended on grants and support costs, resulting in a net decrease in funds. The trustees confirmed that the charity is prepared on a going concern basis with adequate resources 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.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 08/12/2023, 38 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicholas Keith Arthur Joneschair
• Haseena Farid
• Louise Josephine McCabe
• Mark Anderson
• Michael Joscelyn Penrose
• Vanessa Louise Scott Xuereb

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

Operates in: Argentina · Australia · Austria · Brazil · Canada · China · Colombia · Cuba · France · Germany · Greece · Hungary

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOHO SOCIETY.

• THE SOHO SOCIETY income £77k
• THE SHM FOUNDATION income £1.0m
• FOUNDATION HOME income £30k
• SOFT TOUCH ARTS LIMITED income £773k
• THE ROUNDHOUSE TRUST income £16.6m
• DIVERSITY HOUSE LIMITED income £292k

Side by side with its peers

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