THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS' BENEVOLENT FUND LIMITED

Registered charity 261245 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LIONHEART

LionHeart helps RICS members and past members and their families in need. This includes financial assistance, counselling, legal advice, debt advice, employment advice and stress advice.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £274k for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant improvement from the £795k deficit in the prior year. Free reserves stood at £1,882k, which the trustees confirmed were at the target level intended to cover 12 months of budgeted expenditure. Despite the operating loss, the charity maintained substantial net assets of £26,362k, including £24,976k in managed investments.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00980025

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Philip Mills — 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.

• REDMOND, Ruth Laura — director, appointed 23/07/2026on trustee list
• KEANE, Kevin Alexander — director, appointed 23/07/2026on trustee list
• BAKER, James Richard — director, appointed 23/07/2026on trustee list
• YOUNG, Nina Sasha — director, appointed 24/07/2025on trustee list
• BALME, David John — director, appointed 24/07/2025on trustee list
• PALMES, Samuel Oliver — director, appointed 24/07/2025not on trustee list
• SANDBROOK, Sarah Ann — director, appointed 05/09/2024on trustee list
• CLAGUE, Clare Frances — director, appointed 05/09/2024on trustee list
• WORRALL, Neil Steven — director, appointed 08/12/2022on trustee list
• SAMPSON-BANCROFT, Philippa Jane — director, appointed 14/05/2020on trustee list
• DUMASHIE, Diane Awo, Dr — director, appointed 14/05/2020on trustee list
• NELL, Philip John Payton — director, appointed 02/02/2019on trustee list
• LEGG, Caroline Faith — director, appointed 23/08/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (52% 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: 7.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Philippa Jane Sampson-Bancroftchair
• Caroline Faith Legg
• Clare Frances Clague
• David Balme
• Diane Awo Dumashie
• James Richard Baker
• Kevin Alexander Keane
• Neil Worrall
• Nina Young
• Philip John Payton Nell
• Ruth Laura Redmond
• Sam Palmes
• Sarah Sandbrook

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

Operates in: Canada · France · Ghana · Hong Kong · Ireland · Malaysia · Netherlands · Scotland · South Africa · Sri Lanka · Switzerland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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• ICE BENEVOLENT FUND income £1.7m
• THE INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS BENEVOLENT FUND income £107k
• ARCHITECTS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY income £1.2m
• LCI MD 105 FOUNDATION income £126k
• THE COMPANY OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND (1992) income £463k
• THE ROYAL UNITED KINGDOM BENEFICENT ASSOCIATION income £8.2m

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