RICHMOND AND HILLCROFT ADULT AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Registered charity 312825 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HILLCROFT COLLEGE, HILLCROFT COLLEGE (INCORPORATED), HILLCROFT COLLEGE-THE RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE FOR WORKING WOMEN (INCORPORATED)

Hillcroft College, founded in 1920, provides outstanding educational opportunities for adult women through residential and individualised learning. Hillcroft enables women to progress in their work, community, education, business and in their personal lives. Hillcroft also develops educational services for organisations dedicated to women?s advancement and provides a forum for debate.

Objects

To provide education for the public benefit to include, without limitation:To enable adults disadvantaged by educational or social factors to progress into Higher Education, vocational training and employment.To contribute to the national development of adult education.

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: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the College incurred an operating deficit of £80,000 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total comprehensive expenditure rising to a deficit of £439,000. The College holds net assets of £43,148,000 but reports net current liabilities of £383,000 and an unrestricted cash balance of only £160,000, leading the auditor to identify a material uncertainty regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2022 (received 01/06/2023, 1 day after the 31/05/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~48.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anirudh Ralli
• Annabel Barbara Naylor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carolyn Pepper
• David Blaikley
• Dr Siu Wo Im
• Emily Frank
• Frank Garrett
• Gabrielle Nina Flint
• John Martin Riglin
• Manoj Nanda
• Matthew Pope
• Robert Dykes
• Sharon Elizabeth Raj
• Sue Preston

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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