HEREFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1094935 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HEREFORDSHIRE FOUNDATION

Herefordshire Community Foundation is a local, independent grant making organisation. It develops local philanthropic giving in order to support local activities and also adminsters a variety of different charitable funds. Grants can be given to local charities or community groups and cover all ages and many different activities. The organisation normally works within the county boundaries.

Objects

1. THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY OF HEREFORDSHIRE AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS;2. OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC INCLUDING THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY OF HEREFORDSHIRE.

Area of benefit: THE PUBLIC INCLUDING THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY OF HEREFORDSHIRE.

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Herefordshire, County of, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves were £156,279, which the trustees consider more than sufficient to cover at least six months of administration and development activities. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £1,473,291 for the year, driven by investment growth and donations, resulting in total net assets of £9,374,550. The trustees and auditors confirmed that the charity has adequate resources 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 Kendall Wadley LLP. Discloses 5 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Herefordshire Community 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).

• Friends of Ledbury and District Healthcare Fund — “Herefordshire Community Foundation has officially taken over management of the Friends of Ledbury and District Healthcare Fund following a £…” (source page)
• Tabor Charitable Trust — “We’re delighted to announce the launch of the Tabor Charitable Trust Fund, created to help children and young people across” (source page)
• George’s Fund — “In June 2026, George’s Fund awarded £27,590 to seven projects across Herefordshire that harness the power of nature to support” (source page)
• Business for Good Fund — “The Business for Good Fund, facilitated by the Herefordshire Community Foundation (HCF), has awarded a total of £14,562 in grants” (source page)
• Richard Bulmer — “I am pleased to say that since receiving the Richard Bulmer grant, I have purchased a Roland Td-50 electronic drum kit” (source page)
• Charles & Anna Saunders Family Fund — “My family created the Charles & Anna Saunders Family Fund of the Herefordshire Community Foundation after I visited the Foundation offices …” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/09/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/09/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/07/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alex Davies
• Elizabeth Anne Read · trustee of 1 other charity
• Geoffrey John Hughes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karen Hall
• Nell Pearce-Higgins
• Patricia Claire Hodsoll Thomas
• Philippa Patricia Spens · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Charles Christian Robinson
• Sarah Louise de Rohan · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Herefordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HERTFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• HERTFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £10.7m
• WORCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £379k
• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £815k
• BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• SOMERSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.6m
• SHROPSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £150k

Side by side with its peers

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