KENNEDY MEMORIAL FUND

Registered charity 234715 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KENNEDY MEMORIAL TRUST · also registered in Northern Ireland as NIC102330 (CCNI)

The Kennedy Memorial Trust administers the Kennedy Memorial Fund commemorating President John F. Kennedy by maintaining a memorial at Runnymede and awarding scholarships to British graduate students to attend Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Each year the Trust provides graduate students with tuition fees, health cover, a stipend & travel grant.

Objects

1. TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS TO ENABLE MEN AND WOMEN FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM TO GO AS UNDER-GRADUATES OR GRADUATES TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY, RADCLIFFE COLLEGE OR THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. 2. TO SECURE AND LAY OUT A SITE ON RUNNYMEDE AS A PLACE TO WHICH THE PUBLIC HAVE ACCESS AND TO PROVIDE FOR ITS MANAGEMENT AND UPKEEP.

Area of benefit: UNRESTRICTED

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £18,561,720, significantly exceeding the agreed risk reserve of £1,275,535. The Trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, with investment income and gains covering expenditure, and plan to increase resources through a future fundraising campaign.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dunkley & Co Limited. Discloses 6 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2023)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (69% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir Richard Moore KCMGchair
• Dr Tariq Baloch
• Matthew Philip Clifford CBE
• Professor Gareth McKinley
• Professor Kirstie Blair
• Professor Shantashil Mitter
• Rupert Morley
• Sarah Mitchell
• Tilly Anne Franklin

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHARLES AND JULIA HENRY FUND.

• CHARLES AND JULIA HENRY FUND income £401k
• HELENA KENNEDY FOUNDATION income £439k

Side by side with its peers

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