IMPACT FOUNDATION

Registered charity 290992 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q105447067

IMPACT's aim is simple, that no one should become or remain needlessly disabled by disease, lack of knowledge or shortage of medical facilities. IMPACT works in the UK and in some of the poorest countries of Africa and Asia. IMPACT is cost-conscious and cost-effective.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ACTIVITIES FOR THE PREVENTION OF DISABLEMENT AND FOR THE CURE, MITIGATIONAND RELIEF OF DISABLING CONDITIONS AND, IN PARTICULAR, CONSISTENT WITH ITS STATUS AS A CHARITY.[The new Governing document's Clause 5.5 changes 'developing countries' to read 'low-income countries' to reflect current language around international development.]

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mid Sussex, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated incoming resources of £2,219,638 and expended £1,838,079, resulting in a net increase in funds. The trustees report that the balance on unrestricted, non-designated reserves is £202,591, which they consider prudent to cover six months of administration and support costs. The charity maintains a healthy cash position with all investments represented by cash and short-term deposits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Carter Nicholls. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from more than £60,000 (FY2024) to more than £70,000 (FY2025).

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

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
• Volunteer management

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 — IMPACT (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Pascale Noel — Co-Chief Executive (source)
• Sarah Smith — Co-Chief Executive (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £34k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DOCTOR BRENDA MARY LUCKchair
• CLAIRE HICKS MBE
• Colin Somerville
• Dr Carolyn Jane Ward
• Dr Cecilia Akrisie Anim CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Keith Barnard-Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr VINIT NAVINCHANDRA SHAH MBBS MRCP · trustee of 1 other charity
• GORDON BENNETT
• John Michael O'Connell
• Judith Anne Stagg
• Lucinda Ruth Meagher
• Peter Simons · trustee of 2 other charities
• SALWAN RASSAM

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Cambodia · India · Kenya · Nepal · Pakistan · Philippines · Sri Lanka · Tanzania · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with IMPACT INITIATIVES.

• IMPACT INITIATIVES income £3.4m
• IMPACT TRUST income £34k
• PHILANTHROPY IMPACT income £342k
• THE GLOBAL STEERING GROUP FOR IMPACT INVESTMENT income £6.4m
• IMPEX MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION income £30k
• SHAREDIMPACT income £347k

Side by side with its peers

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