THE PHAROS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1203615 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141487046

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Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN THE ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING BYA) AWARDING SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES AND GRANTS TO FUND AND ENABLE RESEARCHB) PROMOTING RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ALL ASPECTS OF THOSE SUBJECTS AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS.

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

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a positive financial outcome with net income of £243,839 and unrestricted funds of £56,884. Per the trustees' report, these unrestricted funds are held below the stated policy target of £405,000 to £675,000, though the trustees expect the target to be met within the first quarter of the next fiscal year. The trustees confirm adequate resources for going concern purposes.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 14647091

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Prof Nigel Biggar — Chairman (source)
• Dr Patrick Nash — Executive Director (source)
• Dr D.H. Robinson — Academic Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• MALCOLM, Noel Robert, Sir — director, appointed 20/02/2026on trustee list
• ROBINSON, George Edward Silvanus — director, appointed 18/03/2024on trustee list
• BIGGAR, Nigel John, Professor — director, appointed 08/02/2023not on trustee list
• RECORD, Neil — director, appointed 08/02/2023on trustee list
• NASH, Patrick Stuart, Dr — secretary, appointed 08/02/2023

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 3.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• GEORGE EDWARD SILVANUS ROBINSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Neil Record
• Professor Nigel John Biggar CBE
• Sir Noel Robert Malcolm

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• GEORGE EDWARD SILVANUS ROBINSON — trustee here and at SLOANE ROBINSON FOUNDATION

Known funders

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

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 PERSONAL BEST FOUNDATION.

• PERSONAL BEST FOUNDATION income £135k
• THE TAURUS FOUNDATION income £1.0m
• FOUX FOUNDATION income £200k
• THE ATRATO FOUNDATION income £330k
• GRAFF FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• THE FOCUS FOUNDATION income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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