SOMERHILL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1002212 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SCHOOLS AT SOMERHILL

Provision of education

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the School reported a net surplus of £335,263 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total reserves increasing to £22,022,161. The Governors consider the School well placed to manage economic challenges, holding sufficient liquid assets to cover short-term requirements of £1.5 million to £2 million. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Julian Hunt — Bursar (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

13 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (13 freehold); recorded price paid £1.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~27.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARK ANTHONY JISKOOTchair
• Christine Barry
• Christopher Holder
• Christopher Holder
• DAVID ANDREW HESTER WELLS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Deborah Bligh
• Eleanor Henery
• Elizabeth Reading
• Ian Fletcher
• Julia Vivian Harley IRVINE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mark Flemington
• Patrick North
• Paul Bromley
• Peter Murray Goodyer · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SARUM HALL SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED.

• SARUM HALL SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
• KEREM SCHOOLS income £2.4m
• THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
• THE MILL HILL SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £79.0m
• HEATH MOUNT SCHOOL TRUST LTD income £10.1m
• HERRIES EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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