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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Hardman Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

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Government & lottery funding

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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 PRISONERS EDUCATION TRUST.

• PRISONERS EDUCATION TRUST income £2.3m
• PARTNERS OF PRISONERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT GROUP income £2.1m
• FRANK LONGFORD CHARITABLE TRUST income £696k
• PRISONERS ABROAD income £2.0m
• SHANNON TRUST income £3.6m
• PRISON SERVICE CHARITY FUND income £170k

Side by side with its peers

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