HELENA KENNEDY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1074025 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HELENA KENNEDY BURSARY SCHEME

Supporting disadvantaged college leavers wishing to enter higher education and promoting progression to graduate employment. We do this through bursaries, skills training, mentoring and providing work placement opportunities. By promoting wider participation in higher education and fair access to the graduate professions we help students to overcome social injustice.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE PROVISION OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS(1) IN AWARDING SCHOLARSHIPS, EXHIBITIONS, BURSARIES OR MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES TO STUDENTS FROM FURTHER EDUCATION SECTOR COLLEGES WHO WISH TO UNDERTAKE A HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAMME AT A UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND WHO ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE(2) IN PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN THE FORM OF A ONE OFF BURSARY PAYABLE TO A STUDENT DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF HIS OR HER HIGHER EDUCATION COURSE(3) IN MAKING A CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THE TUITION FEES AND/OR THE MAINTENANCE COSTS OF STUDENTS WHO WISH TO PROGRESS FROM FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGES INTO A HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAMME(4) OTHERWISE IN FURTHERING THE EDUCATION OF SUCH PERSONS

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM

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

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Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £370,816, with £75,000 held as general fund reserves representing six months' running costs in line with the charity's policy. The charity achieved a net income of £31,458 for the year, supported by investment gains, while total expenditure exceeded total income from donations and legacies.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03667290

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Helena Kennedy Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• RICHARDSON-WALSH, Drew — director, appointed 16/10/2026not on trustee list
• SOOR, Jagdeep Singh — director, appointed 16/10/2026on trustee list
• LE FEUVRE, Philip James — director, appointed 15/07/2021not on trustee list
• COOPER, Mark Ian — director, appointed 25/10/2019on trustee list
• HESS, Elizabeth Ann — director, appointed 25/10/2019on trustee list
• JONES, Mica Jayne — director, appointed 25/10/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/04/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Cooperchair
• Drew Richardson Walsh
• Elizabeth Ann Hess
• Jagdeep Soor
• Mica Jayne Jones
• Philip Le Feuvre
• Philip Sturgeon

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JOHN HAYNES FOUNDATION.

• THE JOHN HAYNES FOUNDATION income £140k
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k
• THE HELEN AND DAVID HAINS (UK) FOUNDATION income £501k
• THE KELLY FOUNDATION income £171k
• FUND FOR ACTION THROUGH EDUCATION income £30k
• THE WREKIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION income £563k

Side by side with its peers

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