THE HADLEY TRUST

Registered charity 1064823 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust's objectives are primarily, but not exclusively, to assist in creating opportunities for people who are disadvantaged to improve their situation, either by financial assistance, involvement in project and support work or research into the causes of, and means to alleviate, hardship.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME UPON THE FOLLOWING TRUSTS: THEY MUST APPLY THE INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND IN SUCH MANNER AS THEY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT FOR OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND THEY MAY APPLY CAPITAL OF THE TRUST FUND FOR SUCH PURPOSES.

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: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total assets decreased slightly to £338,595,256 from £345,593,259 in the prior year, driven by a £7.3 million decrease in investment holdings. The charity maintains adequate liquidity with cash balances of £1,023,238 and reports no material uncertainties regarding its 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 audited by Newton & Garner Limited. Discloses 3 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• KATHERINE ELIZABETH HULMEchair
• Juliet Christine Lyon CBE
• Lady JANET HULME · trustee of 2 other charities
• SOPHIE ANN SWIFT
• Sir PHILIP WILLIAM HULME
• THOMAS WILLIAM HULME

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HADLEY PROJECTS FUND.

• THE HADLEY PROJECTS FUND income £558k
• RADLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £41k
• HURDALE CHARITY LIMITED income £2.3m
• THE HEADLEY TRUST income £1.6m
• HAS TRUST income £52k
• THE PERCY HEDLEY 1990 CHARITABLE TRUST income £56k

Side by side with its peers

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