THE OVE ARUP FOUNDATION

Registered charity 328138 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of education of the public, directed towards the promotion, furtherance and dissemination of knowledge of matters associated with the built environment with some emphasis on the multi-disciplinary nature of design in engineering and architecture in the United Kingdom or in any other part of the world as the trustees in their discretion think fit.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds stood at £6,377,489, with free reserves totaling £2,172,093. The Trustees describe the financial position as robust, noting that reserves have grown through investment returns and are largely untouched. The charity is dependent on a single principal benefactor, Arup Group, for the majority of its income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~41.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (83% 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• GREGORY HODKINSONchair
• Alejandro Gutierrez
• Caroline Cole
• FAITH HELEN WAINWRIGHT
• JEROME FROST
• Kate West
• Lean Doody
• Ricky Tsui

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OVE ARUP PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST.

• OVE ARUP PARTNERSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST income £719k
• THE COMPANY OF CHARTERED ARCHITECTS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £149k
• THE ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION (INCORPORATED) income £24.8m
• Aruna and Ambika Paul Foundation income £342k
• ARRAHMA FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT TRUST income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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