PERRY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 310885 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q61930953 · also known as THE PERRY FOUNDATION

Promoting and developing UK agriculture by funding cutting edge research and postgraduate scholarships at universities and research centres in the UK. Projects undertaken must be of definable benefit to UK agriculture.

Objects

TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH THAT IS CONNECTED WITH AGRICULTURE OR FOOD PRODUCTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus on unrestricted funds of £20,099 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total net assets increasing to £5,680,974. The trustees consider that the investment portfolio underwrites commitments for scholarships in excess of the general reserve, and the independent examiner confirmed no matters gave cause to believe the accounts were materially non-compliant.

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.

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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00335659

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PARKER, Charles Daniel — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• FOSTER, Victoria Jane, Doctor — director, appointed 14/05/2019on trustee list
• PALLETT, Kenneth Edward, Dr — director, appointed 18/11/2015not on trustee list
• FROOD, Ian James Macaulay, Dr — director, appointed 27/01/2012on trustee list
• JELLIS, Graham John, Professor — director, appointed 04/12/2009not on trustee list
• FITT, Bruce David Ledger, Professor — director, appointed 26/10/2007not on trustee list
• NORRIS, Scott John — director, appointed 10/05/2002not on trustee list
• BENNETT, Gordon — secretary, appointed 21/09/2011

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SCOTT JOHN NORRIS BSC NSCHchair
• Charles Daniel Parker
• Dr IAN FROOD
• Dr Ken Pallett
• Dr Victoria Jane Foster
• PROFESSOR BRUCE DAVID LEDGER FITT PHD FRSB
• PROFESSOR GRAHAM JOHN JELLIS PHD FRSB

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · 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 PERRY FUND.

• THE PERRY FUND income £26k
• THE SIDNEY PERRY FOUNDATION income £237k
• The Verney Foundation income £23k
• THE MORLEY AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION income £1.6m
• MERKY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £991k
• LINKING ENVIRONMENT AND FARMING income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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