WESTMINSTER SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP AND BURSARY FUND

Registered charity 1004363 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Westminster School educates children from 7 through to 18 and aims widen access as much as possible. It also aims to provide excellence in sporting and extra-curricular activities, notably artistic, musical and social skills. The aim of this charity is to fund scholarships and bursaries for pupils attending the School. This fund is a restricted fund for this purpose.

Objects

1.AWARDING SCHOLARSHIPS AT WESTMINSTER SCHOOL TO CHILDREN OF EXCEPTIONAL ACADEMIC ABILITY 2.AWARDING BURSARIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING OR CONTRIBUTING TO THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AT WESTMINSTER SCHOOL FOR ANY CHILDRN WHO,IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES WOULD BENEFIT FROM BEING EDUCATED OR CONTINUING TO BE EDUCATED THERE BUT WHOSE PARENTS BY REASON OF FINANCIAL NECESSITY WOULD BE UNABLE TO PROVIDE OR CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THE FULL FEES THEREOF

Area of benefit: WESTMINSTER

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets increased from £142,643,000 to £146,110,000, driven by a net incoming resource of £1,755,000 and investment gains. The charity holds significant unrestricted funds of £86,505,000 alongside restricted and endowment funds, indicating a strong financial position with no disclosed material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (69% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Battenchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Basi Akpabio · trustee of 1 other charity
• Chris Barrie · trustee of 1 other charity
• Claire Marion Oulton · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Mahoney MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dominic Anthony Luckett
• Dr Sarah Ruth Anderson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Grace Yu · trustee of 3 other charities
• Jessica Mary Cecil · trustee of 2 other charities
• John Edward Balfour Colenutt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Maria Bentley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nabeel Abdul Mohamed Fazal Bhanji
• PROFESSOR MARGARET J DALLMAN OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Penelope Kirk · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Revd Canon David Stanton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Tim Woodward · trustee of 1 other charity
• Trevor Bryan Bradley · trustee of 1 other charity
• VERY REVEREND DR DAVID MICHAEL HOYLE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST PETER'S COLLEGE (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS WESTMINSTER SCHOOL).

• ST PETER'S COLLEGE (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS WESTMINSTER SCHOOL) income £46.1m
• THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOL SOCIETY income £240k
• BRENTWOOD SCHOOL CIO income £43.8m
• WESTMINSTER COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE income £2.4m
• THE QUINTIN HOGG MEMORIAL FUND income £243k
• THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION income £5.0m

Side by side with its peers

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