Opening the ledger.

We are new. The page is honest about that.

The Good Season Foundation was chartered in the same week the House was founded. This is Volume One. The House has been open for a season, not a year.

The first cheque has not yet been written. The first partner has not yet been named. The ledger, at the moment of publication, reads zero. We wrote this volume anyway, because the cadence of a report matters more than its contents. A report published on time, every year the House is open, is the promise. Volume One sets the shape. Volume Two will fill it in.

What you are reading is not a marketing document. It is an accounting of intent, a placeholder for actions, and a map of the disciplines we have committed to. If there is a cheque in next year's volume, it will be because this year's was a promise kept in full view.

Three figures. One is a zero.

Transparency, on a founding page, is mostly a matter of admitting what is absent. These three figures will change shape by Volume Two. For now, they are what they are.

Chartered: 1.5%

Of every profit. In perpetuity.

Profit to date: not yet reported

First trading year closes spring 2027.

Committed: £0.00

Written down publicly, so nobody can claim otherwise.

Figures accurate as of publication, spring 2026. The first real numbers land in Volume Two.

Four disciplines. Chosen, not guessed.

We pick four disciplines the House leans on directly. Each gets a share of the 1.5%, rebalanced only if a year's work calls for it. The partner charities inside each discipline are being met in person, not by press release.

Forest regrowth

Native-species reforestation. Protection of what's still standing. We fund people planting trees where trees used to be, and the ones keeping them there.

Partner: to be announced.

Maritime welfare

Ocean clean-up, reef recovery, and the welfare of seafarers and coastal communities. The view from the shore is worth protecting both ways.

Partner: to be announced.

Animal preservation

Species recovery, habitat sanctuaries, and the charities that rehabilitate what photographers are usually only there to observe.

Partner: to be announced.

Land & heritage

Protected landscapes, traditional craft, and the stewards who keep places the way they were found. Quiet work. Long horizons.

Partner: to be announced.

How the 1.5% leaves the till.

The money moves on a quarterly rhythm. Four checkpoints, one report.

One. Every week, 1.5% of the House's profit is set aside into a ring-fenced Foundation account. It does not sit in the trading till. It does not earn interest back to the House.

Two. Four times a year, the Foundation reviews where the money goes: the cause, the partner, the amount.

Three. Cheques are sent that week. Receipts are kept in the Foundation's books, under the partner's legal name, with the outcome requested and the outcome measured.

Four. At the close of each trading year, the whole ledger is set into the next volume of this report. Every cheque, every outcome, every correction. In full.

What next year's report will contain.

The shape of Volume Two is already drawn. It will expand this outline with real figures, real partner names, and at least one thing we got wrong.

Expect:

• profit-and-loss for the first full trading year;
• 1.5% total committed, in pounds;
• the four partner charities, introduced by name and by the person we met;
• first-year outcomes (trees in the ground, rescues funded, acres protected, crews supported);
• a section titled Corrections & overstatements, kept for the things we got wrong;
• the first founders' supplement of nominations from Club members.

If any of that does not appear in Volume Two, the reason will appear in its place. No campaign, no round-up, no press release dressed as a donation.