THE HARROW DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 296097 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance the education of pupils at Harrow and The John LyonSchool and such other charitable purpose as the Trustees may declare.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust held total reserves of £500,662, comprising £135,021 in unrestricted funds, which the Trustees consider sufficient to meet day-to-day operating costs. The Trust reported a net outgoing resource of £20,954 for the year, with total incoming resources of £7,085,345 against total resources expended of £7,148,515. The Trustees confirmed that the Trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Harrow Development Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alastair Land — Head Master (source)
• Dr Stephen Harrison — Senior Deputy Head (source)
• Rupert Try — Deputy Head Academic (source)
• Simon Taylor — Deputy Head Pastoral (source)
• Dr Eric Sie — Director of Admissions (source)
• William Church — Academic and Universities Director (source)
• Eugene Higgins — Deputy Head Co-Curriculum & Partnerships (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 17.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Philip John Glover BAchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Christopher Seppala · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Harrow

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 THE KEEPERS AND GOVERNORS OF THE POSSESSIONS, REVENUES AND GOODS OF THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF JOHN LYON, WITHIN THE TOWN OF HARROW-ON-THE-HILL.

• THE KEEPERS AND GOVERNORS OF THE POSSESSIONS, REVENUES AND GOODS OF THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF JOHN LYON, WITHIN THE TOWN OF HARROW-ON-THE-HILL income £90.8m
• THE HARROW MISSION income £315k
• HERRIES EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £1.6m
• AL RISALAH EDUCATION TRUST income £1.5m
• HARROW DISTRICT SCOUTS income £316k
• DR CHALLONER'S SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £358k

Side by side with its peers

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