THE AUTHOR'S FOUNDATION

Registered charity 326605 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Foundation gives grants to professional writers working on a book, in order to help cover research expenditure or to buy time

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY (1) MAKING GRANTS OR AWARDS OUT OF INCOME TO AUTHORS OF OUTSTANDING LITERARY MERIT TO ENABLE THEM TO CREATE AND/OR PROCURE PUBLICATION OF LITERARY WORKS OF EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF ARTISTIC MERIT, AND (2) PROMOTING THE PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF LITERARY WORKS OF EDUCATIONAL VALUE OR ARTISTIC MERIT.

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: Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds total net assets of £5,269,929, comprising an unrestricted fund of £2,532,597 and a restricted endowment fund of £2,737,332. The trustees state that the charity has sufficient but not excessive funds to service its objectives and has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The charity relies on investment income as its principal source of funds, having ceased fundraising activities in the current year.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ardashir Navroz Vakil
• George Reginald Clive Graham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Moniza Alvi
• Sarah Ann Waters
• The Society of Authors

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 AUTHORS' CONTINGENCY FUND.

• THE AUTHORS' CONTINGENCY FUND income £49k
• AUTHORS' AWARDS AND ADVANCEMENT income £162k
• THE FOUNDATION FOUNDATION income £177k
• THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND income £4.3m
• THE READING FOUNDATION income £517k
• FRANCIS HEAD AWARD income £29k

Side by side with its peers

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