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.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF BRITISH STUDENTS STUDYING AT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL BY THE PROVISION OF SCHOLARSHIPS, LOANS AND OTHER ASSISTANCE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~21.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (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

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Known funders

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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 £1.7m
• HARVARD GLOBAL FOUNDATION LIMITED income £4.0m
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE CHAZON ISH INSTITUTIONS income £110k
• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF MIDRASH SHMUEL income £240k
• FRIENDS OF BURLINGTON SCHOOL income £62k
• THE BRITISH ACADEMY FOR THE PROMOTION OF HISTORICAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES income £106.2m

Side by side with its peers

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