THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

Registered charity 1000531 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Raising scholarship funds for scholarships to Harvard Business School; promote the education of persons studying at HBS.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£249k

Latest spending

£270k

Registered

1990

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £3,153,315, resulting in total net assets of £3,242,934. The trustees report a surplus of £232,995 for the year, driven by significant investment gains. The charity maintains a reserves policy to build a financial cushion to meet future scholarship commitments despite market volatility.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2023)

Total income

£1.4m

Total spending

£1.5m

Cost of raising funds

£19k

Reserves (reported)

£2.8m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~21.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Christine Fairchild
Christopher Stuart Benson
Dean Jonathan Frankle
Fahim Bashir
Geoffrey Gareth Jones
Gulshan Batool
James Ruane
Julie Mulcahy · trustee of 1 other charity
Lilit Davoyan
Pawan Dhir · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£249k	£270k
31/08/2024	£366k	£401k
31/08/2023	£1.4m	£1.5m
31/08/2022	£120k	£133k
31/08/2021	£321k	£484k

Common questions

Is THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £3,153,315, resulting in total net assets of £3,242,934. The trustees report a surplus of £232,995 for the year, driven by significant investment gains. The charity maintains a reserves policy to build a financial cushion to meet future scholarship commitments despite market volatility. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL as a grant recipient include THE RISMAN FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE RISMAN FOUNDATION	FY2025	£42k	Research and scholarships (multi-year commitment total £336k)
THE RISMAN FOUNDATION	FY2024	£42k	Education

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE MAURICE WOHL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£1.4m
THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION	1	£518k
THE SINO-BRITISH FELLOWSHIP TRUST	1	£214k
THE JMCMRJ SORRELL FOUNDATION	1	£100k
THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AT ANKARA	1	£72k
BRITISH ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE ASSOCIATION	1	£32k
THE CORCORAN FOUNDATION	1	£1k
MARC FITCH FUND	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

FRIENDS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY income £1.1m
HULT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL LTD income £19.7m
HARVARD GLOBAL UK income £177k
HARVARD GLOBAL FOUNDATION LIMITED income £4.0m
THE BRITISH ACADEMY FOR THE PROMOTION OF HISTORICAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES income £106.2m
FRIENDS OF HEC CHARITABLE TRUST income £806k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL	£249k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
FRIENDS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY FY2024	£1.1m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
HULT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL LTD FY2025	£19.7m	£145,000 - £149,999	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HARVARD GLOBAL UK FY2025	£177k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
HARVARD GLOBAL FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2025	£4.0m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE BRITISH ACADEMY FOR THE PROMOTION OF HISTORICAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES FY2025	£106.2m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.