THE HARDY FAMILY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1198707 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Foundation will primarily make grants to existing charities. Priorities will be the arts, ASD, ADHD, Cancer, Children/Youth, Dementia, the environment, FASD, food poverty, homelessness, LGBTQIA, refugees, women's physical and mental health. Priority will be given to East London and East Kent. Applications for multi-year and longer term projects particularly encouraged.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £980,330, held at a level considerably higher than necessary to enable the foundation to continue offering long-term funding grants over the next decade or more. This reserve build-up is attributed to the trustee's advice that significant donations are unlikely after 2025, prompting a strategic shift to invest funds for future distribution. The trustees confirm adequate resources for going concern, with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

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.

• Investing charity funds policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~112.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Antonia Jayne Hardychair
• HEATHER LINDSAY HARDY
• VANESSA KAY HARDY

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

Operates in: 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 HARDY FOUNDATION.

• THE HARDY FOUNDATION income £2.8m
• Hollick Family Foundation income £4.5m
• THE TAYLOR FAMILY FOUNDATION income £1.7m
• THE DAVID AND CLAUDIA HARDING FOUNDATION income £10.4m
• THE HARRY & MARY FOUNDATION income £632k
• DHD FOUNDATION income £106k

Side by side with its peers

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