THE LEADSOM FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1212594 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE LEADSOM FOUNDATION LIMITED, The 1001 Critical Days Foundation

We believe every baby should experience the best start in life. We will help make this happen by providing grant funding for charities delivering support services in family hubs and other similar settings, commissioning research into the best support during the perinatal period, and promoting the importance of the 1001 critical days around the world.

Objects

1 TO PROMOTE THE HEALTHY EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF BABIES AND CHILDREN; AND2 TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE CHARITABLE FROM TIME TO TIME IN ENGLISH AND WELSH LAW.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Hart, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a total income of £2,715,640, primarily from donations, resulting in an unrestricted surplus of £2,155,810. The trustees report that the charity held sufficient unrestricted funds of £136,710 to meet its reserves policy target of four months' operating overheads. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's 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 audited by CK Audit. Discloses 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Risk management
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 16183723

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Will Quince — CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (source)
• Phoebe Butcher — CHIEF OF STAFF (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WILMSHURST, Euan Guy — director, appointed 07/07/2026on trustee list
• CLEAR, Alanna Margaret Donayre — director, appointed 02/06/2025on trustee list
• GADHIA, Jayne-Anne, Dame — director, appointed 28/01/2025on trustee list
• LEADSOM, Frederick Richard — director, appointed 14/01/2025on trustee list
• HODGSON, Lucia — director, appointed 14/01/2025on trustee list
• CHAPMAN, Maria Jane — director, appointed 14/01/2025on trustee list
• LEADSOM, Andrea Jacqueline, Dame — director, appointed 14/01/2025not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Right Honourable Dame Andrea Jacqueline Leadsom DBEchair
• Alanna Margaret Donayre Clear
• Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia · trustee of 1 other charity
• Euan Wilmshurst · trustee of 4 other charities
• Frederick Richard Leadsom
• Lucia Hodgson
• Maria Jane Chapman

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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