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THE SUMMERSCALE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1208789 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Latest income
£2.6m
Latest spending
£15k
Registered
2024
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £2,122,773 at the end of the period, derived primarily from a significant donation of listed investments by a trustee. The trustees consider the financial position to be strong and sufficient to support planned grant-making activities, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: a prudent level of unrestricted reserves to meet ongoing governance costs and to allow the charity to respond to grant opportunities as they arise (held: £2.1m)
“The trustees aim to maintain a prudent level of unrestricted reserves to meet ongoing governance costs and to allow the charity to respond to grant opportunities as they arise.” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Total income
£2.6m
Total spending
£15k
Cost of raising funds
£7k
Reserves (reported)
£2.1m
Employees
0

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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£2.6m£15k

Common questions

Is THE SUMMERSCALE FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £2,122,773 at the end of the period, derived primarily from a significant donation of listed investments by a trustee. The trustees consider the financial position to be strong and sufficient to support planned grant-making activities, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
FIRSTFRUITS GOSPEL FOUNDATION1£200k
THE CHARIS TRUST1£11k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST HELEN'S CHURCH NORTH KENSINGTON1£6k
THE CROSS TRUST1£5k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. STEPHEN WITH ST. LUKE, PADDINGTON1£5k
THE REISNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD1£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STEPHEN TAYLOR FOUNDATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE SUMMERSCALE FOUNDATION£2.6m—0unclear—no doubt
STEPHEN TAYLOR FOUNDATION FY2025£61.1m—0unclear—no doubt
SALT FOUNDATION FY2025£426k—0unclear—no doubt
THE HELPING FOUNDATION FY2024£34.8m—0above—no doubt
THE ZAHA HADID FOUNDATION FY2025£9.2m——unclear—no doubt
THE ROCK FOUNDATION FY2025£2.7m—0unclear—no doubt

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