THE HARLEQUINS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1161838 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our vision is a world where the power of sport is used to drive positive change. Our focus is on inspirational, sustainable and transformative solutions that tackle inequality, poor health and the challenges facing the most vulnerable in society using education, skills development and entrepreneurship.

Objects

1.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: 1.1.1 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION; AND/OR1.1.2 TO RELIEVE NEED IN INDIVIDUALS ARISING FROM THEIR YOUTH, AGE, GENDER, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES; AND/OR1.1.3 TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF COMMUNITIES THAT ARE SOCIALLY OR SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY; AND/OR1.1.4 SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE;BY ANY CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Disability · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £860,480, resulting in a net surplus of £7,103 for the year. The charity carried forward unrestricted reserves of £287,165, which the trustees note is below their preferred reserve figure of £351,119. The charity is reliant on the continuing support of Harlequin Football Club Ltd, for which assurances have been received for at least twelve months.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

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

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
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 17/05/2024, 17 days after the 30/04/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Harlequins Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DOMINIC PETER COLESchair
• Chloe Jasmine Shields
• KEVIN CAHILL
• Kelly Veronica Dooley
• Laurie Edgar Dalrymple
• Myles Marmion
• SANDRA POPE
• Verity Nicholas

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

Operates in: Croydon · Hounslow · Kingston Upon Thames · Merton · Richmond Upon Thames · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 LIVERPOOL FC FOUNDATION.

• LIVERPOOL FC FOUNDATION income £10.1m
• THE HARLEY JAE TRUST income £57k
• THE HURACAN FOUNDATION income £39k
• HEAD IN THE GAME income £114k
• THE ARSENAL FOUNDATION income £625k
• R1 SPORTS FOUNDATION income £79k

Side by side with its peers

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