CHARITY PROJECTS

Registered charity 326568 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMIC RELIEF, SPORT RELIEF · also registered in Scotland as SC039730 (OSCR)

Latest income
£51.1m
Latest spending
£49.9m
Registered
1984
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £2.6m for the year, with total reserves standing at £111.0m. The trustees confirmed that the charity has sufficient reserves to cover its costs over the next 12 months and identified no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £180,001 - £190,000 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £125k)
£180,001 – £190,000 1
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Comic Relief Inc. (US entity) paid a licence fee of £50k to Comic Relief Limited.
A licence fee of £50k was charged by Comic Relief Limited which remains outstanding and is fully provided for. — page 55
Comic Relief Limited transfers its total net taxable profit to Charity Projects at the end of each year as a qualifying charitable donation. For the year ended 31 July 2025 this was £3.6m — page 55
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Comic Relief Limited transferred net taxable profit of £3.6m to Charity Projects as a qualifying charitable donation.
A licence fee of £50k was charged by Comic Relief Limited which remains outstanding and is fully provided for. — page 55
Comic Relief Limited transfers its total net taxable profit to Charity Projects at the end of each year as a qualifying charitable donation. For the year ended 31 July 2025 this was £3.6m — page 55
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Comic Relief Limited owed £5.4m to Charity Projects.
A licence fee of £50k was charged by Comic Relief Limited which remains outstanding and is fully provided for. — page 55
Comic Relief Limited transfers its total net taxable profit to Charity Projects at the end of each year as a qualifying charitable donation. For the year ended 31 July 2025 this was £3.6m — page 55
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Trustees and key management personnel made personal donations totalling £1,210.
A licence fee of £50k was charged by Comic Relief Limited which remains outstanding and is fully provided for. — page 55
Comic Relief Limited transfers its total net taxable profit to Charity Projects at the end of each year as a qualifying charitable donation. For the year ended 31 July 2025 this was £3.6m — page 55
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

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 31/07/2025)

Total income
£51.1m
Total spending
£49.9m
Cost of raising funds
£13.5m
Reserves (reported)
£41.1m
Employees
155

Reported reserves equal ~9.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£51.1m£49.9m
31/07/2024£53.8m£46.2m
31/07/2023£50.8m£51.3m
31/07/2022£50.0m£44.3m
31/07/2021£74.1m£86.2m

Common questions

Is CHARITY PROJECTS financially healthy?

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £2.6m for the year, with total reserves standing at £111.0m. The trustees confirmed that the charity has sufficient reserves to cover its costs over the next 12 months and identified no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of CHARITY PROJECTS earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £180,001 - £190,000 band.

Who funds CHARITY PROJECTS?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CHARITY PROJECTS as a grant recipient include BRIDGE HOUSE ESTATES, THE HEALTH FOUNDATION, THE MASTER CHARITABLE TRUST, Able Child Africa, IMPETUS - THE PRIVATE EQUITY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Postcode Lottery31/03/2025£2.0mSpecial Award 2025
Postcode Lottery01/12/2023£1.0mSpecial Award 2024 - Year 2 of 2
Postcode Lottery16/02/2022£1.0mSpecial Award 2023

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ALPHA RELIEF FUND.