THE GREAT BRITAIN SASAKAWA FOUNDATION

Registered charity 290766 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE GREAT BRITAIN - SASAKAWA FOUNDATION

Awards grants upon application to organisations in the UK and Japan for UK-Japan related projects in the following fields:- youth & education, science, technology & environment, medicine & health, arts & culture, sport, the humanities, Japanese language and Japanese studies. Awards will only be made to individuals where they can demonstrate their planned activity has an organisation's backing.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves stood at £33.34 million, while total endowment funds were £14.78 million. The trustees report that investment performance met medium-term targets, preserving the real value of endowments and providing income to support grant-making activities. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability 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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024) to £60,000 - £69,999 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Paul Madden — Chair (source)
• Charles Bodsworth — Chief Executive (source)
• Joanna Pitman — Vice Chair (source)
• Jeremy Scott — Treasurer (source)
• Professor Yuichi Hosoya — Trustee (source)
• Professor Janet Hunter — Trustee (source)
• Professor Izumi Kadono — Trustee (source)
• Professor Dame Louise Robinson — Trustee (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

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

Reported reserves equal ~221.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (75% 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: 5.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Damian Madden CMGchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOANNA PITMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Lloyd Scott · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jumpei Sasakawa
• Koji Tsuruoka
• PROFESSOR JANET ELIZABETH HUNTER
• Professor Dame Louise Robinson
• Professor Izumi Kadono
• Professor Yuichi HOSOYA
• TATSUYA TANAMI

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

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

Income and spending

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• TANAKA UK JAPAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £360k
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• THE DAIWA ANGLO-JAPANESE FOUNDATION income £920k
• SANTANDER UK FOUNDATION LIMITED income £825k
• THE SAINSBURY INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF JAPANESE ARTS AND CULTURE income £350k
• JAPAN HOUSE LONDON TRUST income £10.1m

Side by side with its peers

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