THE BARING FOUNDATION

Registered charity 258583 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q30270957

To improve the quality of life of people suffering disadvantage and discrimination. We aim to achieve this through making grants to strengthen voluntary sector organisations which serve them directly or indirectly and by the added value we bring to this.

Objects

TO PAY OR APPLY OR CAUSE TO BE PAID OR APPLIED THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE FOUNDATION TO SUCH CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS IN SUCH MANNER AND SUBJECT TO SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS THE FOUNDATION MAY DETERMINE.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets increased to £113.0 million, with unrestricted funds of £113.2 million considered sufficient to meet the reserves policy. The charity reported a net expenditure of £1.37 million against investment income of £2.05 million, resulting in a positive net movement in funds. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £110,000 - £120,000 (FY2024) to £110,000 - £119,999 (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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00950696

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Cutler — 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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HOPKINS, James Edward Hardy Lindsell — director, appointed 17/06/2026not on trustee list
• HODGSON, Hilary Ruth — director, appointed 17/06/2025on trustee list
• SEYAL, Aaliya Mahmood — director, appointed 17/06/2025on trustee list
• CAPALDI, Nick — director, appointed 17/06/2025on trustee list
• NANGLE, Toby — director, appointed 21/06/2023on trustee list
• ROBERTSON, Judith Catherine — director, appointed 21/06/2022on trustee list
• MAFETHE, Pontso — director, appointed 21/06/2022on trustee list
• MAGWAZA, Dipuo Virginia — director, appointed 31/03/2022on trustee list
• COOMBES, Ashley Claire — director, appointed 22/06/2021on trustee list
• POPKINS, Jillian Emma — director, appointed 23/06/2020on trustee list
• WUHIB-MUTUNGI, Emebet — director, appointed 25/06/2019on trustee list
• PULLEN, Rhys John Michael — director, appointed 25/06/2019on trustee list
• THORNE, Samuel David Zebedee — director, appointed 17/09/2018on trustee list
• JENKINS, James Edward Thomas Moubray — director, appointed 11/12/2017on trustee list
• AMEDUME, Vicki — director, appointed 14/09/2017not on trustee list
• CUTLER, David Ian — secretary, appointed 09/10/2003

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~153.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (93% 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: 17.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aaliya Mahmood Seyal
• Ashley Claire Coombes
• Dipuo Virginia Magwaza
• Emebet Wuhib-Mutungi
• Hilary Ruth Hodgson · trustee of 2 other charities
• James Edward Hardy Lindsell Willcocks
• James Edward Thomas Moubray Jenkins
• Jillian Emma Popkins
• Judith Catherine Robertson
• Nick Capaldi
• Pontso Mafethe
• RHYS JOHN MICHAEL PULLEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Samuel David Zebedee Thorne
• Toby Nangle
• Victoria Amedume

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

Operates in: 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 BARRISTERS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.

• THE BARRISTERS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION income £559k
• PROWTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £140k
• THE BORN FREE FOUNDATION income £7.8m
• THE BARING ARCHIVE LIMITED income £191k
• THE RANDAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £3.3m
• THE BADUR FOUNDATION income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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