The Hardman Trust

Registered charity 1098118 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PRISONERS PENFRIENDS

The Hardman Trust supports prisoners who are serving long sentences. The grant scheme is available to people who have served 10 years or more. The directory is the 'yellow pages' for finding funding in prison and post-release support. Prisoners Penfriend's provide a voluntary letter-writing service to prisoners.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF PEOPLE IN PRISON AND ANYONE WHO HAS RECEIVED A CRIMINAL SENTENCE IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT, SUPPORT AND PROMOTION OF A CORRESPONDENCE SCHEME BETWEEN PRISONERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £88,505 for the year ending 31 March 2025, driven largely by a legacy gift. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £221,504, which the trustees consider adequate to cover three months of organisational running costs and other liabilities.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04629036

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Hardman Trust (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.

• WONG, Kevin Kin Sing — director, appointed 11/05/2026on trustee list
• ULLAH, Liton — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• FORRESTER, Lathan Nelson Lisimbea — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• ALLAN, Rachel — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Gareth Edward — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• LESLIE, Christopher John Anthony — director, appointed 24/07/2023on trustee list
• KING, James — director, appointed 24/07/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 4.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Leslie
• Gareth Richards
• James King
• Kevin Kin Sing Wong
• Lathan Forrester
• Liton Ullah
• Rachel Allan

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 THE ALDO TRUST.

• THE ALDO TRUST income £51k
• SUSSEX PRISONERS' FAMILIES income £263k
• PARTNERS OF PRISONERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT GROUP income £2.1m
• THE HUNCHMAN TRUST income £119k
• PRISONERS' ADVICE SERVICE income £625k
• DHD FOUNDATION income £106k

Side by side with its peers

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