THE CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1020824 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To carry out charitable activites as determined by the trustees

Objects

TO OR TOWARDS OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH ONE OR MORE CHARITABLE OBJECTS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSE AND/OR CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES IN SUCH MANNER AND IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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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Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is prepared on a going concern basis with adequate funding sources. However, the audit report highlights ongoing internal control weaknesses, including the lack of budgeting and cashflow forecasts, and issues with reconciling donation income and endowment funds. The auditors identified several material misstatements and related party disclosure failures that required adjustment.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2021 (received 04/08/2022, 35 days after the 30/06/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — City of London School Charitable Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~115.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joshua Carl Bellchair
• Aedamar Comiskey
• Alan Robert Bird
• James Thomson
• Martin Israel · trustee of 2 other charities
• Peter Earl
• Priscilla Sellers
• Russell Jones
• Susan Elena Heller
• Timothy Levene
• Woyinemumoutimi Dorgu

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OAKHYRST GRANGE SCHOOL CIO.

• OAKHYRST GRANGE SCHOOL CIO income £1.8m
• LONDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LTD income £1.6m
• LONDON EDUCATION TRUST income £231k
• ROYAL HOSPITAL SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST income £202k
• THE EXETER ICE CHARITABLE TRUST income £77k
• THE WESTMINSTER CITY SCHOOL GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £74k

Side by side with its peers

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