DELFINA FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1202832 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The main objective is the support of cross-cultural dialogue, collaboration and exchange between artists, curators and cultural practitioners in the UK and around the world. The two major areas of activity are: artist residencies and public programme events, including talks, exhibitions, performances, screenings, and collaborative projects.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £161,830 for the period, with total income of £1,441,484 against resources expended of £1,279,654. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £263,298, meeting the stated policy requirement of £100,000 to cover three months of operational activities. The charity holds significant tangible fixed assets valued at £5,455,860, offset by long-term loans of £5,613,948.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 6 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £5.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES WANSBROUGH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Irene Panagopoulos
• MARK MULLER
• Razwana Akram

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE YINKA SHONIBARE FOUNDATION.

• THE YINKA SHONIBARE FOUNDATION income £315k
• THE FREELANDS FOUNDATION LIMITED income £298k
• STUART HALL FOUNDATION income £212k
• THE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION, ARTS AND CULTURE income £133k
• INTERNATIONAL CURATORS FORUM income £283k
• NEW CURATORS income £711k

Side by side with its peers

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