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

A local foundation that uses the legacy of Sir William Harpur, the founder in 1566, to benefit the inhabitants of the Borough of Bedford through the promotion of education; the relief of poverty, sickness and distress; and the provision of recreational facilities with a social welfare purpose.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ESPLEY, Victoria Ann — director, appointed 10/07/2024on trustee list
• PYE, David Stewart — director, appointed 10/07/2024on trustee list
• YOUNG, Kelly Anne — director, appointed 10/07/2024on trustee list
• DANCE, Stephen William — director, appointed 10/07/2024on trustee list
• DAVIES, Andrew Gregory Simon — director, appointed 10/07/2024on trustee list
• REGER, Sebastian — director, appointed 25/04/2024on trustee list
• CHIIMBA, Tanaka — director, appointed 25/04/2024on trustee list
• ROLTON, James Edward — director, appointed 25/04/2024on trustee list
• REHLON, Amandeep Singh — director, appointed 25/04/2024on trustee list
• WILSON, Richard William — director, appointed 22/09/2022on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Mark Christopher — director, appointed 21/01/2016on trustee list
• RATCLIFFE, Richard George, Professor — director, appointed 24/09/2015on trustee list
• SPENCER, Linbert Soloman — director, appointed 07/05/2014on trustee list
• CASTELL, Rhian — director, appointed 23/01/2014on trustee list
• PHILLIMORE, William Andrew Justin — director, appointed 01/07/2012on trustee list
• MAYSON, Stephen Wallace, Prof — director, appointed 01/07/2012on trustee list
• STEWART, Hugh Murray — director, appointed 29/03/2011on trustee list
• LAKE, Clare Louise — secretary, appointed 20/05/2016

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

68 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (66 freehold); recorded price paid £2.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (2,990 likes) · instagram (2,493 followers)

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).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (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 · trustee networks

• 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

Common questions

Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COMBINED HARPOLE CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE COMBINED HARPOLE CHARITABLE TRUST income £175k
• Bedford School Foundation Trust income £2.7m
• WILLIAM PALMER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £260k
• THE GOODMAN FOUNDATION income £4.7m
• JOHN HODGES' TRUST FOR HARPSDEN HALL income £142k
• THE HARBOUR FOUNDATION income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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