WORRALL AND FULLER EXHIBITION FUND

Registered charity 312507 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Under the terms of the trust, the fund can make grants to young people between 5 and 25 years old, resident in the old borough of Finsbury (now part of Islington) with a preference for those resident in, or whose parents during the previous year had their business or employment in the Parish of St. Lukes Old Street, and in the opinion of the governors are in need of financial assistance.

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Latest income
£4.3m
Latest spending
£1.1m
Registered
1964
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £3,780,057, a significant increase from the previous year's £783,365, driven largely by net proceeds from the sale of land. The trustees aim to maintain the underlying value of assets while spending annual income on grants, resulting in a reported operating profit of £2,966,691 for the year. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: maintain the underlying value of its assets while spending the annual income on grants (held: £3.8m)
“The Charity aims to maintain the underlying value of its assets while spending the annual income on grants.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Hardcastle Burton. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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 31/03/2025)

Total income
£4.3m
Total spending
£1.1m
Reserves (reported)
£3.8m
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~40.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (98% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Islington

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£4.3m£1.1m
31/03/2024£82k£42k
31/03/2023£23k£57k
31/03/2022£41k£22k
31/03/2021£21k£15k

Common questions

Is WORRALL AND FULLER EXHIBITION FUND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £3,780,057, a significant increase from the previous year's £783,365, driven largely by net proceeds from the sale of land. The trustees aim to maintain the underlying value of assets while spending annual income on grants, resulting in a reported operating profit of £2,966,691 for the year. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Hardcastle Burton.

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BUZZACOTT STUART DEFRIES MEMORIAL FUND.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
WORRALL AND FULLER EXHIBITION FUND£4.3m—0above—no doubt
THE BUZZACOTT STUART DEFRIES MEMORIAL FUND FY2025£119k—0above—no doubt
THE SIR JOHN SEDLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION FY2025£221k—0above—no doubt
Sir Graham Wylie Foundation FY2024£239k——below—no doubt
Newcomen Collett Educational Foundation FY2025£210k—0above—no doubt
WHITWORTH SCHOLARSHIP'S FUND FY2025£280k—0above—no doubt

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