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Registered charity · London

Association of Charitable Foundations

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.acf.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Association of Charitable Foundations
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.8m
  • 2024£1.6m£1.7m
  • 2023£1.5m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.4m£1.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO FURTHER THE WORK OF CHARITABLE GRANT MAKING TRUSTS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:-(A) ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH TRUSTS AND INSTITUTIONS AND CARRYING OUT RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH;(B) PROMOTING THE COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL EFFECTIVENESS OF SUCH TRUSTS AND INSTITUTIONS AND BETTER METHODS OF ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THEIR RESOURCES..

Grants received

35 grants · £1,137,040 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

1.3y median 1y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
9.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (6)

13
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

General Charitable Purposes 13Education/training 6Arts/culture/heritage/science 2The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2Accommodation/housing 1Animals 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 18Education 8Professional services 7

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.6m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

5.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.2 in 2020

19 from 16 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1105412
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27 JULY 2004. as amended on 30 Oct 2018 as amended on 07 Nov 2018 as amended on 29 Jun 2021 as amended on 04 Jul 2024
Companies House
Company number 05190466 · Active
Contact on the register
02072554499 · acf@acf.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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