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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves amounted to £156,279, which the trustees consider sufficient for at least six months of development activities. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £1,473,291, driven by investment growth and donations, resulting in total net assets of £9,374,550.

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.

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
• antony John Innes Lowther · trustee of 2 other charities

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
• SHROPSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £150k
• DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• WORCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £379k
• CHESHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £2.3m
• HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £656k

Side by side with its peers

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