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Registered charity · Bristol

HF Trust Limited

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £85m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Disability, Accommodation/housing
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.hft.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
HF Trust Limited
Registered
1971

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£85m£89m
  • 2024£89m£98m
  • 2023£81m£97m
Earlier years
  • 2022£90m£89m
  • 2021£85m£86m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 75% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO ENABLE AND SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES TO EXPERIENCE FULFILLING LIVES IN WAYS WHICH MAXIMISE THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY AND PARTICIPATION AS CITIZENS, AND TO EXERCISE CHOICE.2. TO OFFER ADVICE TO AND SUPPORT FOR THOSE WHO CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES

Grants received

24 grants · £2,097,807 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 funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,697,514 (14 grants)
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £240,439 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £72,488 (2 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £61,533
  • Barnwood Trust · £8,900

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,0002025-01-06
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £27,2372024-02-26
  • Barnwood Trust £8,9002023-03-14
  • Sport England £1,8172023-01-25
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £61,5332022-04-01
Board analysis for researchers

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.

14 trustees on the board

0.9y median 0y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (2)

11
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 14Disability 13Accommodation/housing 12Education/training 2Religious Activities 1

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

Health and social care 15Other services 4Professional services 4

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£85.0m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

6.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.3 in 2021

1900 from 3153 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.
76%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
313069
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10/9/62, AS AMENDED 28/4/1973,30/3/1974,5/4/1975,26/3/1977,31/3/1979, 27/3/1982, 22/3/1986, 31/3/1990, 23/3/1991, 28/3/1992, 26/09/1992, 20/9/1997, 20/9/2003, 25/9/2004, 17/9/2005, 26/09/2009.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 OCT 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19 OCT 2018AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20 DEC 2018 as amended on 16 Oct 2020 as amended on 11 Jul 2024
Companies House
Company number 00734984 · Active
Contact on the register
01179061700 · hftgovernance@hft.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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