THE AUTHORS' CONTINGENCY FUND

Registered charity 212406 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides emergency financial help to authors

Objects

TO MAKE GRANTS OR OTHER SUITABLE FINANCIAL PROVISION FOR AUTHORS WHO ARE IN FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES OF FOR THE FINANCIAL RELIEF OF THE DEPENDANTS.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity's unrestricted funds decreased from £521,466 to £467,499 due to a net decrease in funds of £55,980, driven by charitable grants of £81,700 exceeding incoming resources of £48,562. The trustees consider the charity has sufficient income and capital to meet its obligations in the foreseeable future. The charity continues to adopt the going concern basis as it has adequate resources to continue in operational existence.

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 3 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 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 0.5% of total income.

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Society of Authors · trustee of 8 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE AUTHOR'S FOUNDATION.

• THE AUTHOR'S FOUNDATION income £233k
• AUTHORS' AWARDS AND ADVANCEMENT income £162k
• THE CONCERT ARTISTES ASSOCIATION BENEVOLENT FUND income £29k
• PEM CHARITABLE TRUST income £36k
• THE RAINDANCE CHARITABLE TRUST income £69k
• LITTLE GIVING income £650k

Side by side with its peers

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