## **Annual report for the financial year ending 31 December 2024**
## **Charity number**
1181624
## **Companies number**
CE016243
## **Website**
www.solbergafoundation.com
## **Trustees**
Camilla Johansson Kristina Johansson (Chair) Lyndsey Johansson Vanessa Johansson
## **Registered Address**
353 Liverpool Road London, N1 1NL United Kingdom
## **Bankers**
HSBC Private Bank 8 Cork St, Mayfair London W1S 3LJ United Kingdom
## **Overview**
The Solberga Foundation is an independent grant-making charity which was registered as a UK charity on January 18, 2019 and is governed by its constitution. The Foundation currently has four trustees. Kristina Johansson is both the Chair of the board of trustees and the Managing Director. The objectives of the Foundation are to advance such charitable purposes (according to the laws of England and Wales) as the Trustees see fit. The Solberga Foundation funds organisations that are working on animal welfare and climate justice.
## **Mission**
The mission of the Solberga Foundation is to promote compassion and peaceful coexistence between humans, animals, and nature. The Foundation envisions an end to the negative human impact on the natural environment and all who live in it. This mission is supported on a local and community level as well as through global and systemic initiatives. As systems thinkers and advocates for future generations, the Foundation embraces and invests in initiatives that address root causes, and shape a more sustainable, equitable and compassionate future world. Solberga Foundation is dedicated to supporting innovative, lasting solutions that improve lives, empower communities and preserve the land.
## **Governance**
The trustees held one meeting during the course of the year online and agreed that Kristina Johansson will continue to manage the day-to-day activities of the charity, but due to her going on parental leave, the overall work of the Foundation was reduced accordingly.
The charity is a family-run entity where new trustees are appointed by the existing board. The appointment of each trustee continues until a trustee resigns. No changes to the trustees were made in the year.
No serious incidents occurred in the financial year affecting the charity.
## **Financial review**
## **General activities**
The Foundation does not have any staff members. The Managing Director administers the day-to-day activities of the Foundation on a pro-bono basis. Over the course of 2024 the foundation further reduced its engagement in various networks and spaces, and managed the relationships with grantees necessary for grant making needs but did not progress on new applications or updating the Foundation’s website.
## **Grant Making**
The Foundation ensured that relevant compliance with applicable legislation was undertaken, strove to model best practice with regard to grant making and aimed not to place undue burden on any potential grantees.
The Solberga Foundation does not accept unsolicited grant applications. Grants are made at the discretion of the trustees and range in size from £5,000 to £50,000. Grant periods are for one year from the date of the grant agreement. Grantee relationships are actively nurtured and interactions between the Foundation and the grantee form the backbone of any funding provided. Formal grant due diligence is managed internally and includes the review of potential grantees through an application form and grant agreement.
The trustees agreed to the grant-making strategy for 2024 and agreed to make the following grants:
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|---|---|---|
|**Grantee Name**|**Location**|**Grant Amount (£) ***|
|Planet Vegan|USA|£ 4,080|
|Fuel Poverty Action|UK|£ 20,000|
|TOTAL||£ 24,080|
*Grants paid from the Foundation’s USD bank account are converted to GBP at the rate of conversion on the day the grant payment was made.
The Foundation’s focus was to manage existing relationships with grantees in the climate change and animal welfare sectors.
This year the Foundation made 2 grants totalling £24,080.
## **Future Plans**
Due to changes in circumstances, the Foundation has reduced grant making for the 2024 financial year and expects further reduction in 2025, although the trustees remain optimistic that in the medium term, grantmaking will once again increase.
Kristina Johansson Chairperson & Managing Director
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF SOLBERGA FOUNDATION**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the period ended 31 December 2024 which comprise the Statement of Financial activities, Balance Sheet and related notes.
The accounting period is from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024 and is the sixth set of accounts prepared by the charity.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts to not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view’ which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Elizaveta Khaydari BA, ACA
10/09/2025
## **Solberga Foundation Statement of Financial Activities**
## **for the year to 31 December 2024**
|_Notes_
**Income**
Donations and legacies
1
Bank interest
**Total Income**
**Expenditure**
Fund raising
4
Charitable activities
2
**Total expenditure**
**Net income / expenditure**
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|_2024_
_Total_
_£_
-
-
-
26,944
26,944
(26,944)
(26,944)
83,147
56,203|_2023_
_Total_
_£_
263,305
263,305
-
210,531
210,531
52,775
52,775
30,372
83,147|
|---|---|---|
## **Solberga Foundation Balance Sheet**
## **as at 31 December 2024**
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Charity Charity
2024 2023
Notes £ £
Fixed assets - -
- -
Tangible assets
Investments - -
Total fixed assets - -
Current assets
Debtors - -
Cash at bank and in hand 5 56,203 83,147
Total current assets 56,203 83,147
Creditors: amounts falling due
within one year - -
Net current assets 56,203 83,147
Net assets 56,203 83,147
Unrestricted funds 56,203 83,147
Restricted funds - -
Total funds 56,203 83,147
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These financial statements have not been audited and have been prepared by a finance professional.
The notes follolwing form part of these accounts.
Approved by the Board on 10 October 2025 and signed on their behalf by:
## Kristina Johansson
Chair
## **Solberga Foundation Notes to financial statements for the year to 31 December 2024**
## **Principal accounting policies**
The principal accounting policies adopted in the preparation of the financial statements are set out below.
## **Basis of accounting**
These financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities’ effective January 2019 (the Charities SORP (FRS 102)), UK accounting standards, including 'Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006. The charity is a public benefit entity and has therefore applied the relevant public benefit requirements of FRS 102.
The financial statements are prepared in Sterling which is the functional currency of the charity.
## **1. Income**
All incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when the charity is entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy. Income received is a contribution from the Johansson family totalling £0 (2023 : £263,305) for the financial year.
## **2. Expenditure**
Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred, and includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered.
(i) Expenditure on charitable activities comprises expenditure related to the direct furtherance of the charity’s objectives either through direct grant making of £24,080 (2023 : £200,128).
(ii) Support costs relate to those functions that assist the work of the charity but do not directly undertake charitable activities. Support costs include bank charges and consultant fees for governance and financial support.
|Grant making
Memberships
Programmatic costs
Support costs
Total
Exchange rate loss / (gain)
Total Charitable Activities|£ 24,080
£ -
£ -
£ 3,131
£ 27,212
-£ 268
£ 26,944|
|---|---|
## **3. Foreign currency**
Transactions in foreign currencies are initially recorded in the entity’s functional currency, which is pound sterling, by applying the average monthly exchange rate for each month's transactions. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated at the rate of exchange on the balance sheet date. All differences are taken to the statement of financial activities.
## **4. Fundraising**
As a family foundation, the Solberga Foundation does not undertake fundraising activities nor incur fundraising costs.
## **5. Total current assets**
At the end of the year the Foundation held cash in its GBP and USD bank accounts with HSBC and held no other balance sheet asset.
## **6. Trustees' remuneration and expenses**
The Foundation did not pay any remuneration to its trustees during the year and did not reimburse any trustee expenses.
## **7. Related parties**
The Foundation entered in to no related party transactions.
## **8. Corporation tax**
The Foundation is exempt from tax on income and gains falling within section 505 of the Taxes Act 1988 or section 252 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent that these are applied to its charitable objects.