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360 Giving

At the Harpur Trust we are committed to being open and transparent about the organisations we fund.

360 Giving

At the Harpur Trust we are committed to being open and transparent about the organisations we fund. We therefore publish details of the grants we make in our annual report and publish this here on our numbers page each year.

We also publish our information about our grantmaking on the 360 ̊ Giving website. 360 ̊ Giving supports UK funders to publish data in an open and standardised format. We believe that publishing our data helps other funders, grant applicants and researchers to understand who is funding what in Bedford. It supports learning about our communities and leads to better grantmaking, encouraging a more strategic approach to use of our funds.

You can sort our 360 ̊ Giving data by multiple fields. Please note our financial year runs 01 July to 30 June. We aim to publish the data as soon as we can following the end of the financial year, once the accounts have been signed off.

Using the 360Giving Data Standard, our awarded grants between 2023-24 are available. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. View a copy of this license. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to be used and shared as they wish. Please note the data must be attributed to The Harpur Trust.

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Our History

SIR WILLIAM HARPUR’S VISION

The Harpur Trust was founded over 450 years ago by Sir William Harpur, a local man born to humble beginnings who made his fortune as a merchant tailor and who became Lord Mayor of London in 1561.

Today our activities are still inspired by Sir William Harpur’s vision. He understood the value of education, and he saw the real needs to be addressed a month the disadvantaged, poor and sick in his home town of Bedford.

 

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