United Church Schools Trust

Registered charity 1016538 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHURCH SCHOOLS COMPANY, THE CHURCH SCHOOLS COMPANY, THE UNITED CHURCH SCHOOLS TRUST

The provision of a liberal, practical and general education, which includes religious instruction in the doctrine and duties of Christianity, through the operation of independent schools.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £10.8m for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted general funds totaling £54.8m. The trustees consider the current level of reserves to be appropriate, noting that available liquid funds adequately cover the stated policy target of one month’s expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Grant Thornton UK LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £290,001 - £300,000 (FY2024) to £310,001 - £320,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02780748

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sir Jon Coles — Chief Executive (source)
• Lauren Thorpe — Chief Transformation Officer (source)
• Brian Doyle — Regional Director (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MUSTOW, Paul Stuart — director, appointed 13/02/2025on trustee list
• BRODIE, Christian Norman — director, appointed 18/04/2024on trustee list
• GEIGER, Melissa — director, appointed 01/01/2023on trustee list
• KEEBLE, Reena, Dame — director, appointed 01/12/2022on trustee list
• GIVEN-WILSON, Rosalind Margaret, Dr — director, appointed 15/03/2018on trustee list
• HUSSAIN, Alison Laura — secretary, appointed 12/12/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £555k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (3,222 likes) · linkedin

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/07/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/07/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christian Norman Brodie · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dame Reena Keeble
• Dr ROSALIND GIVEN-WILSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melissa Geiger · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Stuart Mustow · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Dorset · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Hampshire · Hertfordshire · Kent · Lancashire · Lincolnshire · Southwark · Surrey

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LTD.

• LONDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LTD income £1.6m
• UK CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS LTD income £1.0m
• ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE BROTHERS OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION income £3.6m
• OneSchool Global UK income £55.5m
• METHODIST INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS TRUST income £118.2m
• CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS LIMITED income £4.5m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.