IMPERIAL SOCIETY OF KNIGHTS BACHELOR

Registered charity 294638 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO UPHOLD THE STATUS, DIGNITY AND STANDING OF KNIGHTS BACHELOR AND TO SUPPORT OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES, INCLUDING THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND RELIGION, THE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT AND IMPROVEMENT OF HOSPITALS AND OF THOSE AFFLICTED BY ILLNESS OR DISEASE; THE MAINTENANCE OF OUR CHAPEL, AND ANY OTHER OBJECTIVE WHICH IS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity suffered an overall net negative movement in funds of £92,757 due to investment losses, reducing total net assets to £973,808. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves of £529,870 remain comfortably above the stated policy target of six months' unrestricted expenditure. The charity maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~69.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Rt Hon Sir Gary Hickinbottomchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIR BEN KINGSLEY
• SIR MICHAEL GRIFFITHS
• SIR MICHAEL HIRST · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIR PRITPAL SINGH
• Sir Andrew Parmley PhD · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sir Anthony Everington
• Sir Christopher Greenwood GBE CMG KC
• Sir Mark Rowley QPM
• Sir Roger Fry CBE
• THE RT HON SIR TONY BALDRY
• The Rt Hon Sir Peter Riddell CBE

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

Operates in: Australia · Belgium · Canada · Guernsey · Hong Kong · Jersey · New Zealand · Scotland · United States

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH MEMBERS OF THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY HOSPITALLER ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM OF RHODES AND OF MALTA.

• THE ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH MEMBERS OF THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY HOSPITALLER ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM OF RHODES AND OF MALTA income £1.3m
• YORK CITY KNIGHTS FOUNDATION income £201k
• THE KING'S CHURCH DURHAM income £571k
• THE CORNERSTONE CHURCH GROUP income £226k
• SOUTHWARK, ARUNDEL & BRIGHTON BRETHREN CIO income £130k
• KUPAT YISMACH LEV income £363k

Side by side with its peers

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