HACRO

Registered charity 1163064 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Mission: Our Mission is to offer support for offenders, potential offenders and their families to manage positive change in their lives; to engage with influential partners in the community of Hertfordshire and neighbouring counties; and to work to establish a range of educational and training initiatives with a focus on gaps in provision.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION SHALL BE TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN AND RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AMONG PERSONS WHO ARE SUFFERING, HAVE SUFFERED OR MIGHT SUFFER A LEGAL RESTRICTION ON THEIR LIBERTY IN ANY PENAL OR CORRECTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT OR THROUGH ANY MEANS WHATEVER AND THE FAMILIES OF SUCH PERSONS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES THINK FIT AND TO FURTHER AND PROMOTE THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS AND METHODS OF THE PREVENTION OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY AND TO OBTAIN AND MAKE RECORDS OF AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SAME, AND TO PROMOTE, SUPPORT OR CARRY ON EITHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY BODY, AUTHORITY, OR PERSON, ANY PROJECT OR SCHEME IN CONNECTION WITH ANY METHODS OF THE PREVENTION OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY AND TO PROVIDE MONEYS FOR SUCH PURPOSES WHETHER BY WAY OR LOAN OR OTHERWISE, WITHIN THE AREA OF THE COUNTY OF HERTFORDSHIRE AND SUCH OTHER NEARBY ENGLISH COUNTIES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED BY THE TRUSTEES.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased slightly from £159,552 to £155,132, with unrestricted reserves standing at £135,301. The trustees report that financial controls were reviewed and found adequate, and they have secured significant longer-term funding to support programmes for six months without further income. However, the charity acknowledges a risk regarding the need to secure new income sources to replace expensed funds.

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 5 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 risk management 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — HACRO (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Albery Gubay — “Funders Albery Gubay” (source page)
• Hertfordshire Community Foundation — “Hertfordshire Community Foundation” (source page)
• Hertfordshire Police & Crime Commissioner — “Hertfordshire Police & Crime Commissioner” (source page)
• National Lottery Community Fund — “National Lottery Community Fund” (source page)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew James Cannonchair
• Anthony John Clayton
• Christopher Hale JP
• Eric Gilbert Pillinger · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jacqui Brabazon
• John Willis Walker FCA
• Mark Shepperd

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

Operates in: Bedford · Cambridgeshire · Essex · Hertfordshire · Northamptonshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 PRISON ADVICE AND CARE TRUST (PACT).

• PRISON ADVICE AND CARE TRUST (PACT) income £9.8m
• NACRO income £90.3m
• HERTFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £10.7m
• ONLY CONNECT UK income £344k
• HERTS YOUNG HOMELESS GROUP income £2.0m
• THE CHRISTOPHER AND HENRY OLDFIELD TRUST income £334k

Side by side with its peers

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