THE ROTHERMERE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 314125 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting Phd students from Memorial University of Newfoundland to continue their education in the UK, supporting Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, other grant making

Objects

“The Trustees shall stand possessed of the Trust Property upon the trusts following that is to say:- (a) Upon trust to apply such of the income thereof as the Trustees’ in their absolute discretion determine in perpetuity in establishing and maintaining scholarships to be known as "Rothermere Scholarships" and to be from time to time awarded in manner hereinafter mentioned to graduates of the Memorial University to be held and enjoyed by those graduates when taking post graduate courses at a United Kingdom University in accordance with the subsequent provisions of this Deed;(b) Subject as aforesaid upon trust to apply such of the income thereof as the Trustees in their absolute discretion determine to advance such charitable purposes (according to the law of England and Wales) as the Trustees see fit from time to time.”

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

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £50,314,721, driven by significant investment gains of £4,558,552, despite a net loss on operations of £1,683,497. Free reserves of £6,954,367 exceed the trustees' stated policy target of twelve months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees and auditors confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. 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.

• Complaints handling
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 2.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• RT HON VISCOUNT JONATHAN ROTHERMEREchair
• THE VISCOUNTESS CLAUDIA ROTHERMERE
• VYVYAN PETER WILFRED HARMSWORTH LVO
• Vere Richard Jonathan Harold Harmsworth

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

Operates in: 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 DARBY RIMMER MND FOUNDATION.

• THE DARBY RIMMER MND FOUNDATION income £709k
• THE ROSENBERG MEMORIAL FUND income £49k
• THE HABERDASHERS' FOUNDATION income £454k
• CONNIE ROTHMAN LEARNING TRUST income £1.6m
• THE NORTHCOTE TRUST income £179k
• CHRIST THE REDEEMER COLLEGE income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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