FRIENDS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Registered charity 290609 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of assistance to UK taxpayer donors interested in supporting the activities of Harvard University and its various subdivisions as well as other activities related to education

Objects

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR FOR ANY EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH HARVARD UNIVERSITY ITS PAST AND PRESENT STUDENTS.

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: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure for the year, resulting in total net assets decreasing significantly from £709,391 in the prior year to £51,660. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of one year of administration costs, but the current unrestricted reserves of £2,761 are below this target. Despite the deficit, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Friends Of Harvard University (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

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, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN HOWARD MCFADDENchair
• Caroline Wright
• Cecil Dyer Quillen · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN DUDLEY FISHBURN
• JOSEPH HUGH O'REGAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Victor Baker · trustee of 2 other charities
• Richard Grant Howells · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• HARVARD GLOBAL FOUNDATION LIMITED income £4.0m
• THE BRITISH FRIENDS OF HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL income £249k
• THE UK FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND income £136k
• THE FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY income £1.6m
• FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS income £60k
• STANFORD FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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