THE CLIVE RICHARDS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 327155 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CLIVE AND SYLVIA RICHARDS CHARITY LIMITED, THE CLIVE RICHARDS CHARITY

Grants are made to organisations particularly schools, churches and those which support the arts and those who request assistance (particularly those who suffer from disabilities). The Trustee Board meet regularly throughout the year to consider applications for funding including social or programme related applications.

Objects

The Objects of the Foundation are 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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £2,629,900, a slight decrease from the previous year's £2,639,538. The charity reported a net income before investment gains of £14,789, driven by £866,894 in incoming resources against £852,105 in expenditure. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with assured long-term financial future based on provisions in WSC Richards' will.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by The Hutchinson Partnership Limited trading as The Hutchinson Partnership. Discloses 5 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 policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02020651 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DEUTSCH, John — director, appointed 06/03/2025on trustee list
• FROST, Karen Elizabeth — director, appointed 02/05/2024on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Hermione Granuaile — director, appointed 16/01/2024on trustee list
• LAMDEN, Julian Guy — director, appointed 13/07/2023on trustee list
• KEMP, James Francis — director, appointed 20/01/2022on trustee list
• DAVIES, Gareth Jon — director, appointed 25/07/2017on trustee list
• IDDON, David John — director, appointed 27/05/2015on trustee list
• DINES, Peter Michael — director, appointed 17/12/2013on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Sylvia Anne — directoron trustee list
• DUTTON, Timothy Richard — secretary, appointed 25/07/2025

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~37.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (81% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Michael Dineschair
• DAVID JOHN IDDON
• Gareth Jon Davies · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hermione Granuaile Richards
• James Francis Kemp
• John Deutsch
• Julian Guy Lamden
• Karen Frost
• SYLVIA ANN RICHARDS

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

Operates in: Herefordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SIR CLIVE BOURNE FAMILY TRUST.

• SIR CLIVE BOURNE FAMILY TRUST income £66k
• RICHARD RADCLIFFE TRUST income £77k
• THE STOCKWELL/CLIFFE CHARITABLE TRUST income £99k
• THE WILLAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £35k
• CECIL AND HILDA LEWIS CHARITABLE TRUST income £158k
• C.B.C. CHARITABLE TRUST income £825k

Side by side with its peers

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