THE CHAMPNISS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 800015 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The purpose of the charity is to work for the advancement of education among pupils attending school, college or other educational establishment by awarding scholarships. Also for the benefit or furtherance of such charitable institution or charitable purposes in such manner and (if more than one) in such shares as the Trustees shall in their absolute discretion from time to time determine.

Objects

1. FOR THE BENEFIT OR FURTHERANCE OF SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES. 2. TO OR TOWARDS OR FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONG PUPILS ATTENDING A SCHOOL COLLEGE OR OTHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT BY AWARDING SCHOLARSHIPS TO BE KNOWN AS CHAMPNESS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS TO SUCH ONE OR MORE OF THEM WHO ARE UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AT SUCH TIME AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net deficit of £222,783 for the year ended 5 April 2025, driven by a significant loss on the revaluation of investments. Despite this, the charity holds substantial unrestricted funds totaling £8,309,332, with the trustees confirming adequate resources to continue operations on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Myers Clark. Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barnaby Daniel Alexander Welch
• JONATHAN SEABORNE LANE
• RICHARD NEVILLE HOBSON MA OXON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHAMPNISS CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE CHAMPNISS CHARITABLE TRUST income £149k
• FOUNDATION MATTERS income £366k
• WILLIAMS COLLEGE FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED income £40k
• THE HAWORTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £147k
• CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP income £4.3m
• CHARLOTTE FRASER FOUNDATION income £63k

Side by side with its peers

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