THE NEWSPAPER PRESS FUND

Registered charity 208215 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JOURNALISTS' CHARITY, NPF - THE JOURNALISTS' CHARITY · also registered in Scotland as SC042405 (OSCR)

Supporting journalists and their dependants by the provision of retirement housing facilities. Also by making grants in approved cases to individuals who meet the occupational requirement.

Objects

TO ASSIST AND RELIEVE PERSONS CONNECTED WITH JOURNALISM OR THE WIDOWS, ORPHANS OR OTHER DEPENDENT RELATIVES OF SUCH PERSONS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net gain of £1,015,000 for the year, driven by a £1,031,000 gain in its investment portfolio, which covered an operating deficit of £16,000. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £10,030,000, which the trustees consider sufficient to sustain the charity for the foreseeable future. While the charity faces risks regarding investment performance and funding, it has sufficient resources to operate for the next 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2024) to £100,000 - £110,000 (FY2025).
• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Journalism Diversity Fund — “The Journalism Diversity Fund awards bursaries to people from diverse backgrounds who need help funding their NCTJ journalism training.” (source page)
• Camelot — “As the operator of The National Lottery since its launch in 1994, we are a company like no other – a commercial organisation that raises bil…” (source page)
• John Schofield Trust — “The John Schofield Trust is working hard to improve social mobility in UK broadcast newsrooms through its mentoring schemes for early career…” (source page)
• Academy for Disabled Journalists — “The Academy for Disabled Journalists was launched in 2020 in partnership with the NCTJ and backed by the National Lottery providing accessib…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Journalists Charity — Deregistered, 2 registered locations, last inspected 23/01/2017.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~130.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Warwickchair
• Alison Gow
• Alison Phillips
• Gill Smith
• John Crowley
• PAUL JONES
• RAMSAY JOHN ANGUS SMITH
• Richard Burgess

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 THE PAVEMENT.

• THE PAVEMENT income £47k
• THE MEDIA TRUST income £1.9m
• NUJ EXTRA income £122k
• CHARITIES ADMINISTERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS income £175k
• THE INDEPENDENT PRESS REGULATION TRUST income £1.2m
• THE HELPING FOUNDATION income £23.9m

Side by side with its peers

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