THE LINDER FOUNDATION

Registered charity 267509 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ENID LINDER FOUNDATION

Current funding priorities are: Medical Research - with a preference for projects relating to surgeryHospice and Respite Care - with a focus on relieving painYoung People - particularly teenagers, young offenders and those in careThe Environment - addressing the harmful effects of human activityThe Arts - supporting musical tuition and concerts, concentrating on youth

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITIES OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AND SUCH MANNER AND SUBJECT TO SUCH TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS THE SETTLOR DURING HER LIFE AND THE TRUSTEES AFTER HER DEATH MAY DIRECT AND DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £123,484, which the trustees aim to keep at a level sufficient to distribute annual income while retaining capital for growth. The organization is reliant on investment income of £519,596 to fund charitable grants of £425,779. The auditors confirmed the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by R.E. JONES & Co. Discloses 5 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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 18.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JONATHAN FOUNTAINchair
• Amanda Smith
• CAROLE ANN ELIZABETH COOK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Henrietta Buxton
• Hugh Elrington
• MICHAEL JOHN CHRISTOPHER BUTLER

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 LINDEN CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE LINDEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £92k
• THE CHRISTOPHER LAING FOUNDATION income £8.1m
• THE LAPID TRUST income £79k
• THE LEANDER TRUST income £37k
• THE PIERS HARRINGTON FOUNDATION income £54k
• ASHOVER COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTRE LTD income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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