THE EPHESIAN FUND

Registered charity 1206489 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that an independent audit was conducted by Shaw Gibbs Audit Ltd. The auditor's report confirms their responsibilities and approach to identifying risks of material misstatement, including fraud and non-compliance with laws. No specific financial health metrics or going concern uncertainties are disclosed in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Shaw Gibbs Audit Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emily Louise Fletcher
• Gregory Allan Brisk
• Piyush Jani · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev John Frederick Dunnett
• Robert George Patrick Turner
• STEPHEN MURRAY HOFMEYR · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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.

• Piyush Jani — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY SEPULCHRE CAMBRIDGE

Known funders

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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 DAVID WILSON FOUNDATION.

• THE DAVID WILSON FOUNDATION income £313k
• JOSEPH LEVY FOUNDATION income £757k
• GARFIELD WESTON TRUST FOR WESTMINSTER ABBEY income £1.0m
• THE MANIFOLD CHARITABLE TRUST income £735k
• THE SAID BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• CHELTENHAM COLLEGE CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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