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.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF PUPILS AT HARROW SCHOOL, BY ASSISTING IN DEVELOPMENT, RENOVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF BOARDING HOUSES AT THE SCHOOL AND TO PROVIDE CRAFT DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY CENTRE AT THE SCHOOL. SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY DECIDE

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) · website · Get email alerts

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

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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.

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 4.7 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 5.3%) (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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HARROW HERITAGE TRUST.

• HARROW HERITAGE TRUST income £12k
• HARROW DISTRICT SCOUTS income £316k
• HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £412k
• HINCHLEY WOOD SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT FUND income £123k
• DALLOW DEVELOPMENT TRUST LTD income £186k
• THE REST-HARROW TRUST income £69k

Side by side with its peers

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