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.

Objects

1) THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND OR THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA OR ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT. THIS SHALL NOT EXTEND TO THOSE PARTS OF THE CONTINENTS OF AMERICA WHICH LIE TO THE SOUTH OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2) WITHOUT DETRACTING FROM THE GENERALITY OF CLAUSE 4(1), THE TRUSTEES MAY AT THEIR DISCRETION GIVE PARTICULAR CONSIDERATION FOR THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING OR HELPING TO PROVIDE OR OBTAIN IMPROVED HOUSING FOR SUCH PERSONS, PARTICULARLY IN INNER CITY AREAS, OR BY PROVIDING WHATEVER OTHER FACILITIES MAY HELP TO IMPROVE THE STANDARD OF LIVING OF SUCH PERSONS, IN WHATEVER WAYS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

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.

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
• 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
• 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.

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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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

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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 JOHN TERRY FOUNDATION.

• THE JOHN TERRY FOUNDATION income £396k
• THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION income £2.2m
• THE ELMGRANT TRUST income £178k
• JARMAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £61k
• THE JOHN HORSEMAN TRUST income £1.9m
• THE GILBERT AND EILEEN EDGAR FOUNDATION income £83k

Side by side with its peers

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