HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1098579 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT TRUST

The Trust raises funds to support the work of Harper Adams University. It's principal aim is to finance student scholarships, particularly for those students who need financial aid to pursue their course of study, and to help generate income to support building projects that assist the University to achieve it's primary educational purpose.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased to £196,896 from £215,537 in the prior year, resulting in a net expenditure of £118,276 for the period. The trustees confirm that reserves are considered appropriate for planned activities and that the charity will only distribute funds it can afford, ensuring it can meet liabilities as they fall due. The auditor reported no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability 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 BDO LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Kildare Charitable Trust — “Lecture theatre facilities have been provided through a legacy from the estate of the late Mr Theo Tinneveld and a donation by the Kildare C…” (source page)
• Rochester Bridge Trust — “Three students at Harper Adams University have become Scholars on a programme run by a charitable trust linked to one of Kent’s most histori…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~14.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Hambletonchair
• Amanda Thorn
• Comfort Tevera
• David Farley
• Joan Cole
• Matthew Blaken
• Professor Ken Sloan · trustee of 2 other charities
• William Alexander Ivor Ferguson

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland

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 HAROLD AND MARJORIE MOSS CHARITABLE TRUST.

• HAROLD AND MARJORIE MOSS CHARITABLE TRUST income £156k
• THE HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION income £1.5m
• FRIENDS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY income £1.1m
• THE SUTASOMA TRUST income £134k
• IAPS CHARITABLE TRUST income £197k
• CLSG BURSARY AND AWARDS FUND income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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