THE MAURICE HATTER FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1187823 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity seeks to distribute income arising from invested funds to various charitable causes at the discretion of the Trustees. The charity continues to provide particular support to projects related to education, education and social welfare.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE FURTHERANCE OF SUCH PURPOSES WHICH ARE RECOGNISED AS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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

Registered contact address: Guildford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total reserves of £98.4m with free reserves of £0.86m, noting that it has sufficient cash and liquid investments to meet grant commitments. The trustees report no significant risks or uncertainties and the independent auditor confirms there are 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 S&W Audit. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2022 (received 24/05/2023, 108 days after the 05/02/2023 due date); year ending 05/04/2021 (received 21/07/2022, 166 days after the 05/02/2022 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (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: 21.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edward Tim Hatter Mr
• FAUSTO UMBERTO FURLOTTI
• Piers David Barclay
• Richard Mark Hatter

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

Operates in: Israel · South Africa · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MARGARET THATCHER SCHOLARSHIP TRUST.

• THE MARGARET THATCHER SCHOLARSHIP TRUST income £858k
• FRAZER TRUST income £614k
• THE MATHER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £607k
• THE LESLIE MARY CARTER CHARITABLE TRUST income £222k
• THE MARGARET BUTCHERS CHARITABLE TRUST income £26k
• FARRER AND CO CHARITABLE TRUST income £102k

Side by side with its peers

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