THE RADLEY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 272671 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE FRIENDS OF RADLEY COLLEGE

The primary aim is the creation of a substantial endowment for Radley College in the form of a central fund, the capital as well as the income of which can be used for the support of Radley. Various initiatives are used for fundraising, with major gifts and legacies being sought. The Foundation is presently funding bursaries for those unable to pay Radley's fees, and supporting various projects.

Objects

TO FOSTER, PROMOTE AND ADVANCE:- (A) SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH RADLEY COLLEGE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE (B) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES (WHETHER OR NOT CONNECTED WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION) AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN LIKE MANNER 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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Vale of White Horse, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets increased from £14,526,298 to £15,804,830, driven by growth in unrestricted funds. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £5,392,397 within its accumulated funds. The independent auditor's report confirms the financial statements were prepared in accordance with applicable regulations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Radley Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• John Moule — Warden (source)
• Julie Fletcher — Finance Director (source)
• Elisabeth Anderson — Development Director (source)
• Sarah Ballard — HR Director (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): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (62% 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: 21.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrea Minton Beddoes
• Catherine Rachel Bell
• Hugh Willis
• Mark Rushton
• SIMON MELLUISH

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 HADLEY PROJECTS FUND.

• THE HADLEY PROJECTS FUND income £558k
• ST PETER'S COLLEGE, RADLEY income £47.6m
• THE JOHN BADLEY FOUNDATION income £487k
• THE RADFORD EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £247k
• THE CHARTLEY FOUNDATION income £235k
• WYCLIFFE COLLEGE FOUNDATION income £37k

Side by side with its peers

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