THE HEADLEY TRUST

Registered charity 266620 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

MAKES GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS

Objects

SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION DETERMINE.

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust held total funds of £63.4 million at the year end, comprising an expendable endowment of £63.1 million and unrestricted reserves of £0.2 million. The Trustees transferred £6.5 million from the expendable endowment to cover a deficit in unrestricted reserves, noting that cash flow projections are regularly reviewed to ensure resources are adequate to meet commitments.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 6 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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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

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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Glass-House Trust — “The Glass-House Trust: Glass-House funds the Glass-House Community Led Design.” (source page)
• The Staples Trust — “The Staples Trust: The Staples Trust has supported the Pitt Rivers Museum’s Living Cultures Programme, which enables the Museum to work with…” (source page)
• The Three Guineas Trust — “The Three Guineas Trust: Three Guineas Trust funds Disability Rights UK's policy team.” (source page)
• The Indigo Trust — “The Indigo Trust: Ealing Law Centre is one of three UK law centres funded by The Indigo Trust as part of its access to justice work.” (source page)
• The True Colours Trust — “The True Colours Trust: The True Colours Trust supports children’s palliative care in the UK.” (source page)
• The Headley Trust — “The Headley Trust: Headley Trust funded a curator at Eastbourne's Towner Art Gallery.” (source page)
• The Woodward Charitable Trust — “The Woodward Charitable Trust: The Woodward Charitable Trust funded The Mentor Ring’s summer play scheme for children.” (source page)
• The Mark Leonard Trust — “The Mark Leonard Trust: The Mark Leonard Trust supports the work of Paraorchestra.” (source page)
• The Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund — “The Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund: The Alan and Babette Sainsbury Charitable Fund funds Southwark Refugee Communities Forum.” (source page)
• The Aurora Trust — “The Aurora Trust: The Aurora Trust supports the work of Farms for City Children.” (source page)
• The Tedworth Trust — “The Tedworth Trust: The Tedworth Trust has funded The Resurgence Trust including The Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, addressing the environ…” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 18.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda McCrystal
• CAMILLA DAVAN Woodward
• Charlotte Mary Rose Hatfield
• LADY SUSAN SAINSBURY · trustee of 1 other charity
• THE RT HON SIR TIMOTHY SAINSBURY
• TIMOTHY JAMES SAINSBURY · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Bulgaria · Croatia · Ethiopia · Greece · Italy · Malawi · South Sudan · Throughout England And Wales · Turkey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEDLEY FOUNDATION LIMITED.

• HEDLEY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £1.5m
• THE HANLEY TRUST (1987) income £54k
• THE HENRY LUMLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £208k
• THE GOODENOUGH CHARITABLE TRUST income £50k
• THE WELWYN HATFIELD FOYER CHARITABLE TRUST income £63k
• BELVEDERE TRUST income £773k

Side by side with its peers

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