01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- Submission Received
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 8 July 2022
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Company number supplied
- 13739654
- Financial period
- 1 December 2024 – 30 November 2025
- Latest income
- £64,373
- Latest expenditure
- £59,131
- Gift Aid
- Yes
- Owns or uses land
- No
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- No
Public contact address: 27 CHARMOUTH ROAD, BATH, BA1 3LJ
Website recorded by the regulator: www.horizonscandalfund.org (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
a. To relieve or prevent hardship, poverty, sickness and distress among those people who have suffered and been affected as a result of problems with the Post Offices computer accounting system commonly known as Horizon; andb. To relieve poverty among persons who have worked, whether on an employed or self-employed basis, at Post Office counters and their families.
03 Official extract
Charity Annual Return History
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 December 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 November 2025
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Reporting Due Date
- 30 September 2026
- Date Annual Return Received
- 7 August 2026
- Date Accounts Received
- 7 August 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £64,373
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £59,131
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 December 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 November 2024
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Reporting Due Date
- 30 September 2025
- Date Annual Return Received
- 28 May 2025
- Date Accounts Received
- 28 May 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £108,830
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £115,029
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 December 2022
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 November 2023
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR23
- Reporting Due Date
- 30 September 2024
- Date Annual Return Received
- 2 August 2024
- Date Accounts Received
- 2 August 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £42,769
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £34,090
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Charity Annual Return Parta
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- Yes
- Fin Period Order Number
- 1
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 December 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 November 2025
- Ar Due Date
- 30 September 2026
- Ar Received Date
- 7 August 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £64,373
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £59,131
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- Yes
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £0
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 1
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 2
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 December 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 November 2024
- Ar Due Date
- 30 September 2025
- Ar Received Date
- 28 May 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £108,830
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £115,029
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- Yes
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £0
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 2
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 3
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR23
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 December 2022
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 November 2023
- Ar Due Date
- 30 September 2024
- Ar Received Date
- 2 August 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £42,769
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £34,090
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- Yes
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £0
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 0
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Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Region
- Geographic Area Description
- Throughout England And Wales
- Welsh Ind
- No
06 Official extract
Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 105
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Classification Code
- 206
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- Other Defined Groups
- Classification Code
- 101
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- General Charitable Purposes
- Classification Code
- 301
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Makes Grants To Individuals
07 Official extract
Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- HORIZON SCANDAL FUND
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- Standard registration
- Date Of Event
- 2022-07-08T00:00:00
08 Official extract
Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12 NOV 2021AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 27 JUN 2022
- Charitable Objects
- THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A) THE RELIEF OR PREVENTION OF HARDSHIP, POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONG THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED AND BEEN AFFECTED AS A RESULT OF PROBLEMS WITH THE POST OFFICE’S COMPUTER ACCOUNTING SYSTEM COMMONLY KNOWN AS HORIZON, IN ITS LEGACY HORIZON, HORIZON ONLINE OR HNG-X VERSIONS; AND(B) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONG PERSONS WHO HAVE WORKED (WHETHER ON AN EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED BASIS) AT POST OFFICE COUNTERS AND THEIR FAMILIES.
09 Official extract
Charity Policy
- Policy Name
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Conflicting interests
- Policy Name
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries