JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION

Registered charity 263207 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION

John Ellerman Foundation is a general grantmaking trust distributing over ?4 million each year. The Foundation aims to support national charities working in the following three categories: Arts, Environment and Welfare.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total reserves of £142,521,000, comprising £141,781,000 in free distributable reserves and £740,000 in designated funds. The trustees have concluded that there is a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sufina Ahmad MBE — Director (source)
• Geraldine Blake — Trustee (Chair) (source)
• Tufyal Choudhury — Trustee (Vice Chair) (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): linkedin

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (97% 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: 14.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Geraldine Blakechair
• ANNIKA SMALL
• Jonathan Hughes
• Keith Anthony Shepherd
• Lily Tomson
• Rebecca Amy Bunce
• TUFYAL CHOUDHURY

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

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Side by side with its peers

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