THE STUART YOUNG FOUNDATION

Registered charity 296318 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity awards grants to new Undergraduate students and new PhD scholars at the discretion of the Trustees and Allocation Panels and upon applicants fulfilling the criteria specified on the application form. These grants are typically for 3 years, commencing from Year 1.

Objects

TO APPLY THE TRUST FUND BOTH AS TO CAPITAL AND INCOME THEREOF TO OR TOWARDS OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTION DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brent, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total income of £173,215, primarily from restricted donations and investment income, with total expenditure of £116,065. The accounts state that free reserves are £Nil because all funds are restricted, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining three to six months' expenditure. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern with adequate resources 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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (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 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 — The Stuart Young Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Denis Leonard Aaronson
• Henry Grunwald OBE KC
• LESLEY AARONSON
• Lady Karen RIX
• Mark Simon Mishon
• Martin Paisner CBE MA LLM · trustee of 25 other charities

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE YOUTH ENDOWMENT FUND CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE YOUTH ENDOWMENT FUND CHARITABLE TRUST income £11.5m
• THE JONGEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £22.3m
• START YOUNG UK income £46k
• THE HASTINGS YOUTH TRUST income £36k
• THE PEARSON-YOUNG MEMORIAL TRUST income £60k
• THE YOUNG FOUNDATION income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

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