THE THORNTON FOUNDATION

Registered charity 326383 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The foundation's activities are the payment of grants to charitable institutions.

Objects

TO PAY OR APPLY THE INCOME OR CAPITAL TO CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS, OR TOWARDS OR FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OR IN FURTHERANCE OF SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN SUCH MANNER AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

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 · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Guildford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus for the year of £815,727, driven by significant net gains on investment assets of £872,163, despite charitable donations totaling £132,100. The unrestricted reserves stood at £5,896,556 at the end of the year, with the trustees confirming the charity remains a going concern and has no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUSAN JOY THORNTONchair
• ANTHONY HYMAN ISAACS · trustee of 3 other charities
• HENRY DOMINIC CHICHELEY THORNTON

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GRANT THORNTON FOUNDATION.

• THE GRANT THORNTON FOUNDATION income £364k
• TAUNTON ROUND TABLE CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £54k
• WOODROFFE BENTON FOUNDATION income £263k
• THE TOUCHSTONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £92k
• THE CORCORAN FOUNDATION income £170k
• THE THORNTON TRUST income £53k

Side by side with its peers

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