## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From: 1 April 2024 to 1 April 2025**
## **Charity name: Elisabeth Henderson Foundation**
## **Charity registration number: 1201223**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To advance education, including by (but not
limited to) awarding scholarships, maintenance
allowances, grants or other support for
educational activity.|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|This was the Charity’s first full year in operation
and was very much in start-up mode focussed on
things such as setting up our IT systems and
grant policy. We made no awards of funding.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Confirmed|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Our policy on grant making has remained
unchanged since it was agreed by the Trustees
in July 2023|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38||
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
SORP reference The Elisabeth Henderson Foundation (EHF) was created at the end of 2022. The reporting period of 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 was our second Summary of the main Para 1.20 full operating year. achievements of the charity, Activity in this reporting period was largely identifying the difference the maintaining the charity’s operations and charity’s work has made to determining the appropriate fundraising the circumstances of its approach. We decided not to actively seek beneficiaries and any wider donations for this period, rather to align with the benefits to society as a legacy planning of our Founding Member which whole. will ultimately result in funding in future years. Consequently, we made no grants.
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The charity has a single bank account. Our only
committed expense is a postal service for mail.
There are sufficient funds to cover that
expenditure.|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We hold sufficient funds to cover our committed
administrative expenditure. We don’t explicitly
hold reserves.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Whilst we don’t explicitly hold reserves, we had
£208 cash on hand at the end of the period.|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|CIO Constitution|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|The charity was set up with four Trustees, all of
which were Trustees during this period. Trustees
are appointed by the Membership. There is
always one Founding Member and potentially
additional members. In this period there is only
the Founding Member, Elisabeth Henderson.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Para 1.51 training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Elisabeth Henderson Foundation|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charity number|1201223|
|Charity’s principal address|Sedulo,
Office 605
Albert House
256-260 Old Street
London
EC1V 9DD|
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|
|Magnus Von Wistinghausen|-|Whole Year|FoundingMember|
|Paula McDonald|-|Whole Year|FoundingMember|
|Sarah Richards|-|Whole Year|FoundingMember|
|Richard Bray|-|Whole Year|FoundingMember|
## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name** None
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **||
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|None|||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets None held in this capacity
Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Richard Bray**
**Paula MacDonald**
**Magnus Von Wistinghausen**
_**Date: 18 January 2026**_
## **Elisabeth Henderson Foundation**
Financial Year 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025
||**£**
**£**|
|---|---|
|**Cast at start ofyear**|670
**670**|
|**Income**
Donations
Other
**Expenditure**
Administration Costs
Grants
**Net (income-expenditure)**|0.00
0.00
0.00
-462.00
-462.00
0.00
-462.00|
|**Cash at end of theyear**|**208**|