THE AIM FOUNDATION

Registered charity 263294 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IAN ROY MARKS CHARITABLE TRUST

AIM awards grants to charitable organisations working to improve the wellbeing of infants, children & young people, as well to organisations who are helping to restore and protect UK rivers and coastal waters. Grants are only made to registered charities or CICs that Trustees have proactively approached. Unsolicited applications are not processed.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets increased slightly to £10,709,170, supported by a significant unrealised gain on investments of £168,087. The charity's unrestricted funds are held entirely as investments, and the trustees report no material uncertainties regarding the going concern assumption.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Albert Goodman LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (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: 76.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charlotte Bushellchair
• Alexandra Walker
• Amanda Jane Keetley
• CAROLINE DAPHNE MARKS · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOANNA MURIEL PRITCHARD BARRETT
• Luke David Pritchard-Barrett
• PHILIPPA GILLIAN BAILEY
• Poppy Morgan
• Sophie Jones
• Tina Hyder

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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• ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MUSEUMS income £1.6m
• AIMING HIGH LONDON income £130k

Side by side with its peers

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