HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY

Registered charity 1147717 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5663364 · Wikipedia · also known as HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

Harper Adams University delivers higher education in support of the agricultural, agricultural engineering, food science and technology, environmental science, veterinary science and land-based sectors.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE UNIVERSITY SHALL BE THE PROVISION, CONDUCT AND DEVELOPMENTOF THE UNIVERSITY TO PROVIDE HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE INDUSTRIES, PROFESSIONSAND COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATED WITH RURAL LAND.

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM OR IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Telford and Wrekin, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the University reported a consolidated deficit of £63,000 for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in a total comprehensive income deficit of £879,000. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves decreased to £84,439,000, while the entity maintains significant tangible fixed assets valued at £86,412,000.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Ken Sloan — Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal — University Chancellor (source)
• Mrs Kate S Baker — University Secretary (source)
• Dr Simone Clarke — Pro-Vice-Chancellor Education and Students (source)
• Liz Furey — Chief Financial Officer (source)
• Robin Halley — Chief Global Impact Officer (source)
• Jo Horsburgh — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Professor Michael Lee — Deputy Vice-Chancellor (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• Harper Adams University and Cambs Farms Growers Limited —
• AgriFood4NetZero: Plausible Pathways, Practical and Open Science for Net Zero Agrifood —
• Cow Health Monitor —
• Development and Screening of Novel Fungal Strains for Exploitation in the Food Industry —
• MacroBioCrude: Developing an Integrated Supply and Processing Pipeline for the Sustained Production of Ensiled Macroalgae-derived Hydrocarbon Fuels —
• Plant-based solutions to integrate livestock disease control, nutrition and environmental sustainability in Africa —
• Harnessing new technologies for sustainable oat production and utilisation —
• ENDORSE: ENhancing Diversity to Overcome ReSistance Evolution —
• Understanding the past to predict the future of distribution change in British Lepidoptera —
• NAPIC: National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre —

Property (HM Land Registry)

16 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (15 freehold); recorded price paid £196k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (30,620 likes) · instagram (15K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~16.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (76% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dominic Wongchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison Allden OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Barbara Ama Ansah Panfu Bray · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ben Shipston · trustee of 1 other charity
• Liz Salter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Luke Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Foster Griffiths
• Navaratnam Partheeban
• Professor Christine Ennew · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Ken Sloan · trustee of 2 other charities
• Talib Sheikh
• Thomas Klages · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Penri Evans
• Yvonne Hawkins · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Professor Ken Sloan — trustee here and at HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST

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 HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £412k
• THE HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION income £1.5m
• CARDIFF UNIVERSITY income £634.1m
• Association of Higher Education Professionals income £761k
• CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY income £353.8m
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ESTATE MANAGEMENT income £24.0m

Side by side with its peers

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