THE PEARSON FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1209604 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SEE FIT.

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) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has unrestricted funds of £95,562 and total funds of £4,300,251, comprising an expendable endowment fund of £4,204,689. The trustees are satisfied that the balance sheet discloses funds adequate to fulfil the charity's obligations and that there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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 4 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Brian Pearsonchair
• Anne Mary Pearson
• Samuel James Pearson
• Sophie Anne Pearson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 HON CHARLES PEARSON CHARITY TRUST.

• HON CHARLES PEARSON CHARITY TRUST income £76k
• THE P T C TRUST income £55k
• THE ARTHUR JAMES PATERSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £62k
• THE P A R CHARITABLE TRUST income £75k
• THE CONSTANCE PATERSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £52k
• LORD HANSON FOUNDATION income £64k

Side by side with its peers

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