Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 9

Strong growth: +2
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Large volunteers +5
Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 15

THE HARDMAN TRUST

The Hardman Trust supports prisoners who are serving long sentences. The grant scheme is available to people who have served 10 years or more. The directory is the 'yellow pages' for finding funding in prison and post-release support. Prisoners Penfriend's provide a voluntary letter-writing service to prisoners.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	£41	£52	£-10	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	65
31/03/22	£41	£61	£-20	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	110
31/03/21	£41	£40	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	100
31/03/20	£38	£39	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	90
31/03/19	£59	£38	£21	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	80
31/03/18	£29	£29	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	£33	£28	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	£26	£29	£-3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15	£20	£24	£-4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	£22	£24	£-2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13	£27	£27	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	£26	£22	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	£25	£23	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10	£24	£23	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	£25	£22	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	£22	£23	£-1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	£21	£20	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	£31	£15	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	£5	£5	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	£9	£7	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 21 years

www.hardmantrust.org.uk

info@hardmantrust.org.uk

0207 261 0084

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
Other Charitable Purposes
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Services for homeless & excluded people & ex-offenders

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
65 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

National Lottery Community Fund	£10,525
Allen Lane Foundation	£9,000
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Expanding Prisoners' Penfriends scheme
£5,000	16/12/2022	The funding will be used to allow the organisation to invest in staffing and volunteer training to meet the growing needs of the project. The project aims to support prisoners well-being reduce ....more The funding will be used to allow the organisation to invest in staffing and volunteer training to meet the growing needs of the project. The project aims to support prisoners well-being reduce loneliness self-harm and further offending.
Allen Lane Foundation - Grant to Prisoners' Penfriends
£9,000	04/03/2022 36	£9,000 over three years (£3,000pa) towards the core costs of this national organisation providing penfriend matches with prisoners.
National Lottery Community Fund - Prisoners' Penfriends sustainability plan
£5,525	04/06/2021	The funding will be used to recruit two part-time volunteers to help process applications from prisoners for an organisation that provides penfriends from the community outside prison for prisoners ....more The funding will be used to recruit two part-time volunteers to help process applications from prisoners for an organisation that provides penfriends from the community outside prison for prisoners in England and Wales.The project aims to give prisoners a penfriend to support their wellbeing offer hope and a link to the outside world.
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Prisoners' Penfriends
£5,000	04/11/2020	11% running costs for a charity delivering a penfriends scheme for prisoners across England and Wales

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 36-72

CATHAL CUNNINGHAM Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Accountant

PERRY SUTHERLAND Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Coo

ALEXANDRA LOUISE MARKS (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Barrister

CHRISTOPHER LESLIE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director

DAVID MAGUIRE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Academic

EDWARD DU BOULAY Appointed: 2023

JAMES KING Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired

LOUISE SPENCER Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director

MELANIE ESSEX Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Parole Board

KIM EVANS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Arts Consultant, Other trusteeships: ALTERNATIVE THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED, THE ARVON FOUNDATION, FORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 20/06/2003, number: 1098118
Registered at Companies House on 06/01/2003, number: 04629036

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
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
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; all on time

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from THE HARDMAN TRUST on 06/02/2024

Main office

7 Bell Yard
London
WC2A 2JR

Objectives

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF PEOPLE IN PRISON AND ANYONE WHO HAS RECEIVED A CRIMINAL SENTENCE IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION, THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT, SUPPORT AND PROMOTION OF A CORRESPONDENCE SCHEME BETWEEN PRISONERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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