ESMEE FAIRBAIRN FOUNDATION

Registered charity 200051 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ESMEE FAIRBAIRN CHARITABLE TRUST, THE ESMEE FAIRBAIRN TRUST FUND

We are one of the largest independent foundations in the UK. Our primary interests are in the arts, children and young people, the environment and social change.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Foundation holds unrestricted reserves of £1.336 billion, which the Trustees consider sufficient to continue as a going concern. The investment portfolio, valued at £1.381 billion, achieved a total return of 9.4% in 2025, outperforming the long-term objective of RPI plus 4%. The Foundation spent £60.7 million on charitable activities and raising funds, supported by investment income of £8.9 million.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor David Hill — Chair, Audit and Risk Committee (source)
• Beatrice Hollond — Chair, Finance and Administration Committee (source)
• Beatrice Hollond — Chair, Governance and Nominations Committee (source)
• Edward Bonham Carter — Chair, Investment Committee (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Electoral Commission register entries

Entries on the Electoral Commission’s public register where this charity (or its company) appears as the source — typically sponsorship of an APPG or an overseas visit provided to an MP, which charities may lawfully do. Shown with the Commission’s own reference; this is a transparency record, not an allegation.

• Cash: Mr Henry Porter (Third Party) — £10k · 06/03/2017 · ref C0334058

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (94% 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: 36.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BEATRICE HANNAH MILLICENT HOLLONDchair
• Dame Clare Moriarty
• Dr Wanda Wyporska
• Edward Bonham Carter
• Elspeth Jones
• Gautham Radhakrishnan
• Grace Elizabeth Marjorie Hughes-Hallett
• Harriet Manners
• Mary Ann Sieghart
• Professor Claire Elice Alexander
• Professor David Hill

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

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

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 FAIRNESS FOUNDATION.

• THE FAIRNESS FOUNDATION income £242k
• THE GEOFF & FIONA SQUIRE FOUNDATION income £173k
• FOUX FOUNDATION income £200k
• THE FYRISH FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• THE ELIZABETH FRANKLAND MOORE AND STAR FOUNDATION income £444k
• THE HENRY MOORE FOUNDATION income £8.0m

Side by side with its peers

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