The Champniss Foundation

Analysis

The Champniss Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Herts. It was registered in September 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Champniss Foundation reported income of £328k and spending of £370k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £182k to £328k (+80%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2024, when income rose by 375%. Over the whole period it spent 55% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Champniss Foundation sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brighton College Scholarship, Bursary and Prize Endowments (£328k), Holmer Pre-School Ltd (£328k) and Buttsbury Pre-School (£328k).