THE RANK FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 276976 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q81002565

The advancement and promotion of the Christian religion and Christian religious education of the public, advancing public knowledge of other world faiths with significant communities in the United Kingdom. Encouraging and developing leadership amongst young people and supporting disadvantaged young people and those frail or lonely through old age and disability.

Objects

(A) THE PROMOTION, BY MEANS OF THE EXHIBITION OF RELIGIOUS FILMS, OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES, CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. (B) THE PROMOTION OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY ANY OTHER LAWFUL MEANS. (C) THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION. (D) THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND IN FORCE FROM TIME TO TIME.

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 · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £303.1m at year-end, which the Trustees consider sufficient to continue current mission fulfilment. The Foundation operates a total return investment approach with no specific target level of reserves, planning distribution over the medium and long term after considering all commitments.

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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £7.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (51% 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: 6.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Fleming
• Andrew James Henry Murdoch
• Dr Johanna Gabriella Miranda Lohn
• JOHANNA LOUISE ROPNER · trustee of 2 other charities
• James Patrick Mahon
• Joel Buchanan
• LINDSEY VICTORIA HALL · trustee of 2 other charities
• MR DANIEL SIMON
• Mark Summerfield
• STUART HUXLEY COWEN
• William Wyatt

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 JOSEPH RANK TRUST.

• THE JOSEPH RANK TRUST income £2.9m
• THE RANK PRIZE FUNDS income £425k
• THE RANDAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £3.3m
• RSM UK FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• ROCK FOUNDATION UK LIMITED income £742k
• FOUNTAIN EDUCATION income £116k

Side by side with its peers

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