THE GORDON MURRAY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1203963 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity undertakes initiatives to partner with charitable and not-for-profit education providers, providing grant funding to facilitate opportunities for their students and graduates to pursue engineering and design.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO:(1) ADVANCE EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, IN ENGINEERING AND DESIGN; AND(2) SUCH OTHER OBJECTS, AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES, AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL DECIDE.

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 · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net inflow of resources of £23,182,841 for the year ended 5 April 2025, primarily driven by a large donation of £18,600,000 from a trustee and their family. However, the unrestricted reserves stand at a deficit of £60,909, which the trustees intend to address by transferring capital from the Expendable Endowment Fund in the next financial year. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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.

• Investing charity funds 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Ian Gordon Murray CBEchair
• ANTON STERNBERG · trustee of 3 other charities
• Paul Raymond Fennemore
• Professor Stuart Bartholomew · trustee of 1 other charity
• Terence David ORourke

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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