THE MICHAEL BISHOP FOUNDATION

Registered charity 297627 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To assist such charitable institutions or charitable purposes as the trustees shall in their absolute discretion think fit.

Objects

TO APPLY INCOME OR CAPITAL FOR THE BENEFIT OF ANY ONE OR MORE QUALIFIED CHARITY DEFINED AS ANY PURPOSE BODY ORGANISATION OR OBJECT IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHICH UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND SHALL BE RECOGNISED AS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PROVIDED THAT NO "EXCLUDED PERSON" SHALL BE CAPABLE OF BECOMING A QUALIFIED CHARITY OTHERWISE THAN AS A TRUSTEE FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North West Leicestershire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted funds of £48,073,493, derived principally from an investment portfolio valued at £50,244,110. The trustees report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, noting that resources are unrestricted and managed to preserve capital while meeting foreseeable needs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Perrys Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• 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

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lord Glendonbrook — Founder (source)
• Lord Glendonbrook CBE — 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~129.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (72% 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: 14.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARON GLENDONBROOK OF BOWDON CBEchair
• Joanne Furlong · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan David Elliott
• Martin Peter Ritchie
• TIMOTHY JOHN BYE

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PHILIP HILLMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

• THE PHILIP HILLMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £234k
• THE MICHAELSEN FOUNDATION income £100k
• THE MASTER CHARITABLE TRUST income £155.3m
• THE MILLFIELD TRUST income £42k
• THE MICHAEL COWAN FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• THE PHILLIPS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £100k

Side by side with its peers

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