THE HAPPOLD FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1050814 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HAPPOLD TRUST

The Happold Foundation is a charity dedicated to using engineering skills and experience to make a positive impact on people's lives. We work with students, educators, engineers and researchers to shape a community that wants to improve the performance of the built environment.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£369k

Latest spending

£264k

Registered

1995

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that an independent examiner reviewed the financial statements for the year ending 30th April 2025 and found no evidence of misstatement or incorrectly recorded transactions. The document does not disclose specific figures for reserves, income, or expenditure, nor does it mention any material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 fundraising profile: JustGiving — Happold Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Buro Happold — “The Happold Foundation is generously funded through the partners of Buro Happold.” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Ian Maddockschair
Clara Gholam
Kitty Walker
Robert Okpala
Sam Youdan
Sarah Sachs
Thomas Karl Newby
Tom Happold

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

Operates in: Germany · India · Poland · Throughout England · United States

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/04/2025	£369k	£264k
30/04/2024	£361k	£226k
30/04/2023	£300k	£208k
30/04/2022	£241k	£171k
30/04/2021	£182k	£197k

Common questions

Is THE HAPPOLD FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that an independent examiner reviewed the financial statements for the year ending 30th April 2025 and found no evidence of misstatement or incorrectly recorded transactions. The document does not disclose specific figures for reserves, income, or expenditure, nor does it mention any material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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 Connolly Foundation (UK) Limited	1	£300k
Bedford School Foundation Trust	1	£24k
THE HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST	1	£20k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BUILDING FOUNDATIONS.

BUILDING FOUNDATIONS income £108k
HOFENUNG FOUNDATION income £371k
THE HOSKING CHARITABLE TRUST income £415k
HIDAYA FOUNDATION income £172k
THE HARPUR TRUST income £73.0m
ESP FOUNDATION income £247k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE HAPPOLD FOUNDATION	£369k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BUILDING FOUNDATIONS FY2025	£108k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
HOFENUNG FOUNDATION FY2024	£371k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HOSKING CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£415k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
HIDAYA FOUNDATION FY2025	£172k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE HARPUR TRUST FY2025	£73.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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