Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 8

Support Score: 5

Excess liquidity: -1
Positive trading contribution: +2;Pension deficit: -3
Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs low: +3

12+ Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 12

HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY

Harper Adams University delivers higher education in support of the agricultural, agricultural engineering, food science and technology, environmental science, veterinary science and land-based sectors.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

More than half of total income was derived from trading and fees in the latest year
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
There are 20 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end especially considering the historic stability of income
There is a pension deficit of £13,934,000
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
31/07/22	£45,490	£46,325	£-835	£374	£68,344	£66,778	17.3	488
31/07/21	£41,902	£41,717	£185	£473	£48,072	£46,376	13.3	483
31/07/20	£41,204	£42,351	£-1,147	£500	£46,909	£45,409	12.9	493
31/07/19	£44,185	£43,108	£1,077	£326	£55,529	£54,050	15	488
31/07/18	£40,655	£40,234	£421	£260	£62,359	£61,849	18.4	509
31/07/17	£42,685	£41,277	£1,408	£1,806	£58,304	£57,080	16.6	504
31/07/16	£39,083	£37,120	£1,963	£2,809	£52,713	£51,508	16.7	497
31/07/15	£38,413	£35,325	£3,087	£3,560	£37,005	£22,732	7.7	477
31/07/14	£38,269	£37,601	£668	£3,361	£35,115	£21,061	6.7	446
31/07/13	£34,397	£33,480	£916	£3,093	£34,820	£20,764	7.4	424

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £200,000-£250,000
Liabilities/Assets: 36%
Liabilities/Income: 101%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 98%
Reserves/Spending: 17.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 3.4

Asset Split ?

Established: 12 years

www.harper-adams.ac.uk

cbaxter@harper-adams.ac.uk

01952820280

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Colleges and universities

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

488 employees

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Pasture to Plate (P2P): realising the enormous potential of UK grasslands
£361,842	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/W018012/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Realising the environmental benefits of faba beans Vicia faba L via optimised nutrition and nitrogen fixation
£14,051	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/X511626/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Optimisation of partial biofumigation for the management of potato cyst nematodes
£14,051	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/X511729/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Arable: Modelling the impact of cabbage stem flea beetle on oilseed rape crops
£7,435	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/X011976/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Determining the feasibility of photonic noses to improve in-field pest monitoring
£25,313	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/X005658/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Harper Adams University and Johnston Sweepers Limited
£110,043	01/12/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=511986
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Public Sector Low Carbon Skills Fund (Phase 1)
£36,000	24/11/2020	To improve low carbon skills in the public sector
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - A holistic non-destructive data driven demonstrator to quantify potato crops during growth to realise maximum marketable yield and help reduce waste, contributing to net zero emissions - TUBERSCAN-DEMO
£294,855	01/09/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=48752
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - PRUEX
£100,108	01/09/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=51026
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - COVID 19 Grant Extension Allocation HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY
£39,452	01/07/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP/V521486/1
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - EAFRD - RD Measure 10 EXQ funded
£13,394	01/04/2019	This measure is the primary Agri-environment-climate funding for England in delivering the Rural Development programme environmental land management priorities and builds on the agri-environment ....more This measure is the primary Agri-environment-climate funding for England in delivering the Rural Development programme environmental land management priorities and builds on the agri-environment Countryside Stewardship and Environmental Stewardship schemes offered under the previous RD programme.The measure funds activities intended to deliver environmental land management priorities contributing to Englands Biodiversity 2020 goals and legal obligations under the Habitats, Birds and Water Framework Directives and soil commitments made in the Natural Environment White Paper and increase resilience of wildlife, habitats and ecosystems to climate change.Funding is paid according to the payment rate for each option included in the individual agreement, and the area/length/number of the commitment selected and is based on income foregone and additional costs. Agreements can be 5 year multi annual commitments with the option of annual extensions for a further two years. 10 year commitments or longer will be offered in cases where an exception is clearly justified.RPA administers for measures in England.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Detection of Johne's Disease in Cattle
£19,198	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=133601
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Harper Adams University and P I Bioscience Limited
£143,919	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=511285
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - ALB - UKRI - Auto-Fungan: Automating the continuous anaerobic digestion of wheat straw by co-cultures of fungi and methanogens
£295,406	01/04/2018	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=EP/S001581/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Research England research Capital England 1819
£165,227	01/04/2018	To support high quality research
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - EAFRD - RD Measure 10
£3,862	01/04/2018	This measure covers Agri-environment-organic farming support.Payments are based on income foregone and, where relevant, additional costs resulting from converting to an organic farming system. There ....more This measure covers Agri-environment-organic farming support.Payments are based on income foregone and, where relevant, additional costs resulting from converting to an organic farming system. There are 5 different conversion payments available for different farming systems: Rotational Land; Improved Permanent Pasture; Unimproved Permanent Pasture; Horticulture; and Top Fruit.This measure aims to fund organic conversion and maintenance by active farmers and builds on existing conversion and maintenance support under the previous RD programme Environmental Stewardship (Organic Higher Level and Entry Level Stewardship) elements.Activities funded under this measure support farmers wishing to convert to and maintain organic farming systems for environmental benefits. Investments contribute to meeting Englands Biodiversity 2020 goals and legal obligations under the Habitats and Species and Water Framework Directives. Support also aims to deliver the main objectives on biodiversity and the water environment (including flood management).RPA administers for measures in England.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (20)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 19/20 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 24-68

MARK FOSTER GRIFFITHS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Chartered Accountant

REBECCA PAYNE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Head Of Department

TALIB SHEIKH Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Investment Manager

TAMANNA JITESH Appointed: 2023

ULOMA UHUNMWANGHO Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Senior Cybersecurity Lead, Other trusteeship: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,

BARBARA AMA ANSAH PANFU BRAY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Food Safety And Nutrition Consultant, Other trusteeship: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,

BEN SHIPSTON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Chartered Surveyor, Other trusteeship: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,

CLIVE BEER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director, Other trusteeships: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, FRIENDS OF THE FLAXMILL MALTINGS,

DEBORAH JANE HEWETT Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Agronomist, Other trusteeship: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,

DOMINIC WONG Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Accountant, Other trusteeship: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,

DR JOHN READE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Principle Lecturer, Other trusteeship: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,

DR TIM WATSON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Veterinary Surgeon, Other trusteeship: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,

EMMA FOLKES Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Solicitor, Other trusteeship: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,

ELEANOR MACE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Su President, Other trusteeship: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,

KEN GREETHAM Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Consultant, Other trusteeship: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,

LIZ SALTER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Consultant, Other trusteeship: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,

PETER NIXON (Chair) Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Chartered Surveyor, Other trusteeship: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,

PROFESSOR KEN SLOAN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Vice Chancellor And Ceo, Other trusteeships: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST,

THOMAS KLAGES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Systems Developer, Other trusteeship: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,

YVONNE HAWKINS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Higher Education Strategy Consultant, Other trusteeship: HARPER ADAMS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/06/2012, number: 1147717
Registered at Companies House on 27/04/2012, number: 08049710

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

10 returns made; all on time

Main office

Harper Adams University
Edgmond
NEWPORT
TF10 8NB

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE UNIVERSITY SHALL BE THE PROVISION, CONDUCT AND DEVELOPMENTOF THE UNIVERSITY TO PROVIDE HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE INDUSTRIES, PROFESSIONSAND COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATED WITH RURAL LAND.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM OR IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD

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