THE BLAIR FOUNDATION

Registered charity 801755 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Objects

IN OR TOWARDS THE FURTHERANCE OF SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR OBJECT OR PURPOSES OR OBJECTS AND IF MORE THAN ONE IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AND IN SUCH MANNER IN ALL RESPECTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE DECLARATION OF TRUST)

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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Guildford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves increased significantly to £240,830 from £29,908 in the prior year, supported by investment income of £25,897 and transactions yielding £347,139. The Trustees consider the charity's finances to be in a strong position with adequate funds to meet current liabilities. Grants paid to charities totaled £104,550, representing a slight increase in charitable support compared to the previous 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2025 (received 19/02/2026, 14 days after the 05/02/2026 due date); year ending 05/04/2024 (received 07/02/2025, 2 days after the 05/02/2025 due date); year ending 05/04/2021 (received 21/04/2022, 75 days after the 05/02/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN THOMAS THORNTON
• Fiona Peta Thornton
• JENNIFER MARY THORNTON

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

Operates in: Scotland

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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Charities like this

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

• THE BLAIR TRUST FUND income £187k
• FLAIR FOUNDATION income £50k
• THE BORN FREE FOUNDATION income £7.8m
• THE CLEAR FOUNDATION income £86k
• THE STREET FOUNDATION income £750k
• THE BALLINGER CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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