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Donor-compliant project audits, grant assurance, statutory audit and taxation for trusts, foundations, endowment funds and donor-funded programmes.
Donor reporting is not statutory audit with different letterhead. Documentation, sampling and reporting format follow the funder's own specification, and continued funding depends on that specification being met — not just on the underlying numbers being correct. We work with welfare trusts, foundations, endowment funds and donor-funded programmes on exactly that distinction.
A donor requires a project audit to their own specification.
Documentation, sampling and reporting format built to the funder's standard, not adapted from a statutory audit template.
We manage an endowment fund and need assurance trustees and beneficiaries can rely on.
Statutory and grant assurance scoped around what a fund's governance structure actually requires.
Our grant reporting deadline is approaching and the file isn't ready.
Audit and reporting timed to the funder's deadline, not the entity's own year-end convenience.
We run a welfare trust or foundation and need our first proper statutory audit.
An audit built around how trusts and foundations are actually structured and governed.
Our programme is funded by more than one donor with different requirements.
Reporting reconciled once, in a form that can be adapted to each funder's specific format rather than rebuilt from scratch for each.
We are an incubation or startup support body and need compliance support that fits how we actually operate.
Statutory and tax compliance for an organisation that doesn't fit a standard commercial-entity template.
All eleven service lines are available to any client. These are the ones genuinely relevant to a trust, foundation or donor-funded programme.
Statutory audit and project audits built to a donor's specification, not a repurposed commercial template.
Tax treatment specific to trusts, foundations and not-for-profit structures.
Bookkeeping and reporting structured around grant and programme accounting, not standard commercial ledgers.
Registration and statutory compliance for trusts, foundations and not-for-profit companies.
Internal control review where donor terms require a documented control environment.
Governance advisory for boards and trustees carrying fiduciary responsibility for donor funds.
Control testing where a donor or funding body requires assurance beyond the annual audit.
Reporting support where a programme's own mandate or funding terms touch environmental or social outcomes.
Each of these has its own page setting out the full scope, approach and pricing — this is the set most relevant to development sector work specifically.
Anonymised, because most of what we do cannot be written up any other way. Named-client work sits behind our clients' own consent, not published here.
More broadly, our representative work in this sector includes welfare trusts and foundations, a national education endowment fund, child rights and social welfare programmes, and incubation and startup support bodies. The fuller list of sectors and engagement snapshots — including this one — is on our Clients & Experience page.
A statutory audit follows local reporting standards. A donor project audit follows the funder's own specification for documentation, sampling and reporting format — the underlying figures may be identical, but the file that satisfies one won't automatically satisfy the other.
Yes. Where a programme has multiple funders, we build the underlying file once and adapt the reporting to each funder's specific format.
Both. Welfare trusts, foundations, endowment funds and not-for-profit companies are all part of the practice, alongside donor-funded programmes run through other structures.
We scope to the funder's actual deadline rather than our own convenience. Tell us the date and we will tell you what's realistic within it.
Statutory and project audits are typically scoped per engagement or per grant cycle. Ongoing accounting and compliance support is priced as a retainer, matched to the programme's reporting calendar.
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