ARCHITECTS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

Registered charity 265139 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Architects Benevolent Society offers confidential advice, support and financial assistance to the architectural community and their families in times of need.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £140,850 for the year, which was significantly lower than the previous year's deficit of £1.38 million. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were £7,113,772, which is well above the stated policy target of £525,000, and the charity maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Architects Benevolent Society (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Simon Ashmore — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• John Moakes — 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Free Wills Network — “ABS is pleased to announce it is partnering with the National Free Wills Network to offer supporters in the UK the opportunity to have a sim…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~228.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 42.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Hugh McLeish
• Christl Anne Hughes MBE
• Deborah Kearns
• John Lindsay Moakes
• Kathryn Anne Fisher
• Kuljeet Kaur Sibia
• MARK AUSTIN HODGKINSON
• Marc Cairns
• Richard Cryer
• Richard John McCluggage
• Robert Robinson Bedner
• Sangeeta Shenoy

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

Operates in: Botswana · Colombia · Italy · Kenya · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS BENEVOLENT FUND.

• THE INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS BENEVOLENT FUND income £113k
• THE ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED) income £24.8m
• THE ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION income £215k
• THE COMPANY OF CHARTERED ARCHITECTS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £149k
• ICE BENEVOLENT FUND income £1.7m
• THE CHARTERED SOCIETY OF DESIGNERS income £196k

Side by side with its peers

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