JOHN MOORES FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1207661 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

John Moores Foundation makes grants to charitable organisations.

Objects

TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year of £1,470,245, resulting in unrestricted funds falling to a negative balance of £32,942. However, the charity holds significant expendable endowment assets of £30,001,875, which the trustees have the discretionary power to convert to income to meet liabilities. The trustees and auditors 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 audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 6 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (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: 34.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARNABY MOORESchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Costelloe
• John Davis · trustee of 1 other charity
• KEVIN MOORES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kenechukwu Anichebe
• NICOLA EASTWOOD

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

Operates in: Cheshire West & Chester · Halton · Knowsley · Lancashire · Liverpool City · Northern Ireland · Sefton · St Helens · Wirral

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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