THE ICELAND FOODS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 281943 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEJAM GROUP LIMITED EMPLOYEES TRUST, THE ICELAND FOODS CHARITABLE TRUST, THE ICELAND FROZEN FOODS CHARITABLE TRUST

The Foundation supports the good causes for which Iceland Foods and its employees undertake a wide range of fundraising activities each year. Since 1986 Iceland Foods and the Foundation have together given over GBP9m to charities including Alder Hey Children's Hospital (over GBP3m), Help For Heroes (GBP1.6m), Alzheimer's Research UK (over GBP3.0m) and The Prostate Cancer Charity (over GBP500,000).

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £3,815,064, which is above the stated policy target of £1,375,000 to £1,700,000. The trustees confirm that the charity has sufficient cash resources and liquidity to continue activities for at least the next 12 months, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Grant Thornton UK LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Richard, Lord Walker of Broxton OBE — Chairman (source)
• Tarsem Dhaliwal OBE — CEO (source)
• Sir Malcolm Walker CBE — Director-level (source)
• Paul Dhaliwal — Director-level (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): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~36.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% 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: 25.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Dhaliwal
• Richard Malcolm Walker
• SIR MALCOLM WALKER
• TARSEM SINGH DHALIWAL

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HILTON FOOD GROUP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

• HILTON FOOD GROUP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £114k
• THE SUPPORT FOUNDATION income £190k
• BEEFY'S CHARITY FOUNDATION income £167k
• Prept. Foundation income £284k
• FOOD FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• THE FEED FOUNDATION income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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