ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 295573 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOUNDATION FOR ROAD SAFETY RESEARCH

To promote road safety for the benefit of the public

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Latest income

£977k

Latest spending

£943k

Registered

1986

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a group surplus of £33,928 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £527,918. Per the trustees' report, these reserves are sufficient to cover the charity's forecasted core cost base of £512,838, which exceeds the stated policy target of eleven months of expenditure. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: at least eleven months of its forecasted "core" cost base at a value of £512,838 (held: £528k)

“The Trustees have established that the general level of reserves that the Charity needs should be sufficient to cover at least eleven months of its forecasted "core" cost base at a value of £512,838.” — page 11

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Shared staffing costs, other payments, and grants with iRAP; payments to RASL; common key management.

“During the year, the Group shared staffing costs of £50,313 (2024: £86,349), made other payments of £79,326 (2024: £104,177) and received grants of £67,332 (2024: £72,101) with iRAP. It also made payments to Road Assessment Services Limited of £61 (2024: £Nil). At 31 December 2025, included in the other creditors is £116,205 (2024: £48,045) due to iRAP and £61 (2024: £Nil) due to Road Assessment Services Limited.” — page 34

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: Evropski institute za ocenjevanje cest- EuroRAP (EIRA)

“The financial statements consolidate the activities of Road Safety Foundation and of its subsidiary undertaking, Evropski institute za ocenjevanje cest- EuroRAP (EIRA) ('the subsidiary').” — page 20

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Dr Stephen Hammerton — Chair (source)
Dr Susan Sharland — Chair of the Management Committee (source)
Dr Suzy Charman — Executive Director (source)
Kate Fuller — Programme and Engineering Director (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): linkedin

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

Total income

£977k

Total spending

£943k

Reserves (reported)

£528k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~6.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Alexandra Overton-Wood
Dr SUSAN MARGARET SHARLAND MAPHDFCIHT
Dr Stephen Hammerton · trustee of 1 other charity
Nicholas David John Lomas · trustee of 1 other charity
Richard Ian Sanderson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£977k	£943k
31/12/2024	£1.0m	£858k
31/12/2023	£828k	£759k
31/12/2022	£521k	£590k
31/12/2021	£558k	£429k

Common questions

Is ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a group surplus of £33,928 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £527,918. Per the trustees' report, these reserves are sufficient to cover the charity's forecasted core cost base of £512,838, which exceeds the stated policy target of eleven months of expenditure. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited.

Who funds ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE ROAD SAFETY TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE ROAD SAFETY TRUST	FY2022	£199k	Maximising the accessibility and impact of telematics speed data for enforcement, road safety engineering and research
THE ROAD SAFETY TRUST	FY2023	£32k

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE MOHN WESTLAKE FOUNDATION	1	£1.0m
THE HEALTH FOUNDATION	1	£496k
THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION	1	£382k
THE PEARS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£300k
JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION	1	£150k
THE DULVERTON TRUST	1	£145k
Tinsley Charitable Trust	1	£40k
HIGHWAY ONE TRUST	1	£35k

Charities like this

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

ROADSAFE income £889k
THE ROAD SAFETY TRUST income £102.1m
TYRESAFE income £274k
SAFER ROADS FOUNDATION income £87k
WEST HERTS CHARITY TRUST LIMITED income £272k
BRAKE income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION	£977k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ROADSAFE FY2025	£889k	—	0	unclear	—	not going concern
THE ROAD SAFETY TRUST FY2025	£102.1m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
TYRESAFE FY2024	£274k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
SAFER ROADS FOUNDATION FY2025	£87k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
WEST HERTS CHARITY TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£272k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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