THE PHAROS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1203615 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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 S P LOHIA FOUNDATION.

• S P LOHIA FOUNDATION income £1.5m
• THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION income £463k
• PERSONAL BEST FOUNDATION income £135k
• PONOSI FOUNDATION income £144k
• AL Philanthropies income £25.6m
• THE PURI FOUNDATION income £5.3m

Side by side with its peers

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