FRANCIS HEAD AWARD

Registered charity 277018 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Gives grants to published writers over the age of 35 who need financial help during a period of illness, disability or temporary financial crisis

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR TO THE EXTENT THAT THE SAME SHALL BE CHARITABLE IN LAW THE FURTHERANCE AND PROMOTION OF EDUCATION BY PROVIDING AN ANNUAL AWARD OR ANNUAL AWARDS FOR THE BENEFIT AND ASSISTANCE OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE OVER THE AGE OF 35 YEARS WHO WHETHER BY REASON OF DISABLEMENT OR OTHERWISE ARE IN FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY AND WHETHER MALE OR FEMALE AND WHO WERE BORN IN ENGLAND SCOTLAND WALES OR NORTHERN IRELAND.

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: Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity's unrestricted reserves decreased from £752,247 to £731,225 due to a net expenditure that exceeded investment income. Despite this decrease, the trustees consider the charity to have sufficient funds to meet its charitable objectives and continue operations in the foreseeable future. The primary source of income remains investment dividends, which were used to fund grants to authors and cover management costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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 policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Society of Authors · trustee of 8 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE AUTHOR'S FOUNDATION.

• THE AUTHOR'S FOUNDATION income £233k
• THE AUTHORS' CONTINGENCY FUND income £49k
• FERNDALE INTERNATIONAL income £45k
• FUND FOR HUMAN NEED income £94k
• THE HALE TRUST income £34k
• THE P.D. JAMES MEMORIAL FUND income £47k

Side by side with its peers

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