THE SMITH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 529132 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote the education and general welfare of children with special educational needs.Provision of a special school within the meaning of the Education Acts.

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WHO HAVE SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS, AND IN PARTICULAR BUT IN NO WAY LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY THE PROVISION OF A SPECIAL SCHOOL WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE EDUCATION ACTS;(B) TO PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS REQUIRING ASSISTANCE WHO HAVE OR HAVE HAD SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS, WITH PREFERENCE FOR PUPILS AND FORMER PUPILS OF THE SCHOOL OF THE CHARITY

Area of benefit: BRIGHOUSE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £1,634,196 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £9,768,205. The trustees maintain a reserves policy target of 50% of annual running costs, and the current unrestricted reserves significantly exceed this threshold. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Shenward LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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 handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

What the charity says about itself (2024-2025)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sue Ackroyd — CEO / Executive Principal (source)
• Rezina Kelly — Chair of Governors (source)

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• WILLIAM HENRY SMITH FOUNDATION

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE LESLIE SMITH FOUNDATION income £104k
• THE MARTIN SMITH FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• THE WILBUR AND NISO SMITH FOUNDATION income £160k
• SMS FOUNDATION income £229k
• CHRISTINA SMITH FOUNDATION income £250k
• PS FOUNDATION income £560k

Side by side with its peers

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