THE HARGREAVES FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1187297 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £72,449,619 following significant investment gains of £7,032,754, which offset a net expenditure on charitable activities of £3,578,131. The trustees maintain that the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified regarding its ability to continue operations. Reserves are held as unrestricted funds with a policy focused on maintaining suitable cash balances for liquidity rather than a specific multi-month expenditure target.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Francis Clark. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2024) to £110,001 - £120,000 (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Peter Hargreaves — Founder (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~205.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 48.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER KENDAL HARGREAVESchair
• LOUISA ROSE HARGREAVES
• NIGEL JAMES BENCE
• Robert Kendal Hargreaves
• Rosemary Hargreaves

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 THE BEHRENS FOUNDATION.

• THE BEHRENS FOUNDATION income £120k
• YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
• THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION income £463k
• THE HARGREAVES CHARITABLE TRUST income £169k
• THE J G GRAVES CHARITABLE TRUST income £217k
• THE HARDY FOUNDATION income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

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