THE MACFARLANE FAMILY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1202171 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Foundation seeks to support charities whose services in turn support disadvantaged groups or communities, alleviate poverty, advance education, promote good citizenship or community development.Applications are by invitation only, and priority is given to charitable services delivered in the UK.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD:(A) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY,FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE;(B) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY;(C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; AND(D) THE ADVANCEMENT OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR THEPUBLIC BENEFIT.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted income funds stood at £113,175 as of 31 March 2025, a decrease from £186,970 in the prior year. The charity had no creditors and maintained positive net current assets of £113,175. The filing notes an exemption from audit under charity law for the year ended 31 March 2025.

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 3 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian Coombs-Goodfellow
• Philip Stubbings
• Stuart Clive MacFarlane

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 THE MCBAIN FAMILY FOUNDATION.

• THE MCBAIN FAMILY FOUNDATION income £830k
• FRANKS FAMILY FOUNDATION income £102k
• THE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, ARTS AND CULTURE income £133k
• THE ROBERT MCALPINE FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• THE IAN AND BARBARA MCFARLANE FOUNDATION income £121k
• THE FAMILY PLACE FOUNDATION income £224k

Side by side with its peers

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