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Registered charity · Bedford

The Harpur Trust

  • 17 trustees
  • Income £73m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Recreation
Where
Bedford
Website
www.harpurtrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Harpur Trust
Registered
1997

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£73m£73m
  • 2024£75m£74m
  • 2023£69m£68m
Earlier years
  • 2022£61m£60m
  • 2021£55m£55m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION 2. THE RELIEF OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE SICK OR IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS; AND 3 THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION FOR INHABITANTS IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS FOR LIFE; PROVIDED THAT IN CARRYING OUT THE OBJECT AT ARTICLE 4.3 ABOVE, THE CHARITY MUST GIVE PREFERENCE TO THOSE INHABITANTS WHO ARE YOUNG OR IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS.

Grants given

187 grants · £4,624,994 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top recipients

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

17 trustees on the board

6.4y median 2y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (3)

17
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 17Recreation 17The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 17

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 32Professional services 12Health and social care 9

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£73.0m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months

1134 from 1121 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1066861
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27/11/1997NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 30/09/2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 02/11/2011AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 25/05/2012 as amended on 01 Jun 2018
Companies House
Company number 03475202 · Active
Contact on the register
01234369500 · info@harpurtrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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