THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION

Registered charity 267618 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q111686472

The charity is a grant making foundation that seeks to provide opportunities for young people (0 to 25) and their families, living in Westminster, Chester and rural areas, to raise their aspirations and improve their prospects throughout life. Further details are provided on our website.

Objects

TO PAY OR APPLY THE INCOME AND THE WHOLE OR PART OF THE CAPITAL FOR SUCH CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME 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: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · 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 unrestricted funds increased significantly to £168.4m, driven by substantial net investment gains of £19.7m and increased donations from Grosvenor Group. Despite a decrease in charitable expenditure to £7.8m, the charity maintains a strong financial position with adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young. Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 31/12/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (56% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTERchair
• Jonathan Frederick Lait
• Sir David Charles Holmes · trustee of 6 other charities
• VICTORIA JANE HORNBY

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

Operates in: Cheshire West & Chester · City Of Westminster · Lancashire · Scotland

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 YOUNG WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION.

• YOUNG WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION income £2.7m
• WESTMINSTER SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP AND BURSARY FUND income £414k
• THE WINCHESTER PROJECT income £1.2m
• THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED income £105
• THE WILSON FOUNDATION income £121k
• WICKENS FAMILY FOUNDATION income £224k

Side by side with its peers

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