THE HENRY SMITH CHARITY

Registered charity 230102 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HENRY SMITH (ESTATES CHARITIES), HENRY SMITH (KENSINGTON ESTATES CHARITIES), SMITHS CHARITY, THE CHARITY OF HENRY SMITH (KENSINGTON ESTATE)

The Charity is an endowed grant maker which awards grants for purposes within its objects within the UK.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£19.0m

Latest spending

£54.5m

Registered

1963

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds reached £1.39 billion at year-end, supported by a diversified investment portfolio that delivered a 7% return. The charity awarded £34.2 million in grants and maintained unrestricted reserves of £10 million, which the trustees noted would be spent down across 2026 and 2027 as the new strategy is implemented.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £150,000 - £160,000 — above the median for charities its size (£130k)

“The number of employees with emoluments greater than £60,000: £150,000 - £160,000 1” — page 26

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: 4.0% of the total value of the endowment as averaged over the previous 5 years (held: £10.0m)

“The Foundation’s current policy is to transfer each year from the endowment funds, into the Main Unrestricted and Estates Restricted funds, 4.0% of the total value of the endowment as averaged over the previous 5 years” — page 13

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Expenses reimbursed to trustees

“Expenses of £6,385 (2024: £4,838) were reimbursed to four Trustees during the year to cover travel and other related costs incurred by them in fulfilment of their duties. The Trustees received no remuneration during the year or in the previous year.” — page 30

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Clare McGread — Director (source)
Anand Shukla — Chief Executive (source)
William Sieghart — Chair (source)
Rob Bell — Director (source)
Rachel Nelmes — Director (source)
Matthew Gill — Director (source)
William Jacks — Director (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.

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

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

Total income

£19.0m

Total spending

£54.5m

Cost of raising funds

£15.7m

Reserves (reported)

£23.0m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~5.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (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: 82.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (12/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Abureza Faisel Rahman
Andrew Beeforth
Baldeesh Nahl
Ben Kernighan
Christopher Mark Granger · trustee of 1 other charity
George Roberts
Janet Garrill
Jonathan Asquith
Nicola Pollock · trustee of 2 other charities
The Lady Bella Colgrain DL
William Sieghart

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£19.0m	£54.5m
31/12/2024	£16.4m	£82.4m
31/12/2023	£14.4m	£65.5m
31/12/2022	£11.9m	£80.7m
31/12/2021	£11.0m	£53.2m

Common questions

Is THE HENRY SMITH CHARITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total funds reached £1.39 billion at year-end, supported by a diversified investment portfolio that delivered a 7% return. The charity awarded £34.2 million in grants and maintained unrestricted reserves of £10 million, which the trustees noted would be spent down across 2026 and 2027 as the new strategy is implemented. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of THE HENRY SMITH CHARITY earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £150,000 - £160,000 band.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
UK government	28/09/2020	£2.0m	CMC - The Henry Smith Charity

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
CORAM LIFE EDUCATION	1	£20k

Charities like this

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

THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION income £463k
PAUL SMITH'S FOUNDATION income £423k
FOWLER SMITH AND JONES TRUST income £764k
THE SMITH FOUNDATION income £13.4m
SANTANDER UK FOUNDATION LIMITED income £825k
THE FOUNDATION OF EDWARD STOREY income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE HENRY SMITH CHARITY	£19.0m	£150,000 - £160,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION FY2025	£463k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
PAUL SMITH'S FOUNDATION FY2025	£423k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
FOWLER SMITH AND JONES TRUST FY2025	£764k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
THE SMITH FOUNDATION FY2025	£13.4m	£100,001 - £110,000	9	above	—	no doubt
SANTANDER UK FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2025	£825k	—	0	unclear	0.0%	no doubt

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