HEDLEY FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 262933 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HEDLEY FOUNDATION

Charitable grant giving to UK registered charities.

Objects

FOR ALL AND ANY PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND IN FORCE FROM TIME TO TIME AND THE DOING OF SUCH OTHER THINGS AS ARE INCIDENTAL TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS AND ARE ANCILLARY THERETO BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY THEROF.

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.

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Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds surplus of £5,183,924 for the year ended 31 March 2024, driven by significant investment gains. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves were £1,690,247, which the trustees consider to be in line with their stated policy target of twelve months' operating expenditure. The charity relies entirely on its invested assets for funding and maintains a cautious approach to expenditure amidst economic uncertainties.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Littlejohn LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2023) to "above" (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01018571

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SCULLY, Alexander — director, appointed 20/11/2019on trustee list
• BENNETT, Charles Albury George — director, appointed 22/11/2017on trustee list
• FORD, Andrew Charles, Lt Col Sir — director, appointed 20/01/2009not on trustee list
• FANSHAWE, Angus Edward — director, appointed 23/05/2007on trustee list
• STUTTAFORD, Lorna Barbara Margarite — director, appointed 26/06/2002on trustee list
• HOLCROFT, Patrick Roy — director, appointed 01/04/1995not on trustee list
• KITTO, Mary Carmel — secretary, appointed 27/01/2010

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

13 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (11 freehold); recorded price paid £3.4m. 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 ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (56% 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: 25.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SIR ANDREW CHARLES FORD GCVOchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ALEXANDER SCULLY · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANGUS EDWARD FANSHAWE · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHARLES ALBURY BENNETT · trustee of 1 other charity
• LORNA BARBARA MARGARITE STUTTAFORD
• PATRICK ROY HOLCROFT LVO OBE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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 HEADLEY TRUST.

• THE HEADLEY TRUST income £1.6m
• THE HARTLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £67k
• FILEY FOUNDATION LTD income £271k
• HC FOUNDATION income £85k
• THE HARDY FOUNDATION income £749k
• THE HEATHFIELD TRUST income £67k

Side by side with its peers

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