THE HARPUR TRUST

Registered charity 1066861 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Bedford Giving, HARPUR PRE-PREPARATORY SCHOOLS LTD, PILGRIMS PRE-PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trustees have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis, indicating no material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue operations. The filing confirms that the financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of affairs and the income and expenditure for the year ended 30 June 2025. No specific financial figures for reserves or income are explicitly stated in the provided text to calculate ratios or trends.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03475202
• Trading subsidiary: BEDFORD SCHOOL ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 15206610

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bedford Giving (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rhian Castell — Chair of The Trust (source)
• Stephen Mayson — Deputy Chair of The Trust (source)
• Justin Phillimore — Deputy Chair of The Trust (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• RHIAN CASTELLchair
• Amandeep Singh Rehlon
• Andrew Gregory Simon Davies · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Stewart Pye
• HUGH MURRAY STEWART · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Edward Rolton
• Kelly Anne Young
• LINBERT SPENCER
• MARK TAYLOR
• PROFESSOR STEPHEN MAYSON
• RICHARD GEORGE RATCLIFFE
• Richard Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sebastian Reger
• Stephen William Dance
• Tanaka Chiimba
• Victoria Ann Espley
• WILLIAM ANDREW JUSTIN PHILLIMORE

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

Operates in: Bedford

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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