THE FARNBOROUGH HILL TRUST

Registered charity 1039443 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FARNBOROUGH HILL

Farnborough Hill educates the whole person in a happy, caring community. The ethos of the school is rooted in the Roman Catholic tradition. Governors, community, staff, parents and students are involved in a creative partnership which explores life through learning, experience and reflection and gives a reason for living and hoping.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £8,419,725, with £1,134,823 in freely available reserves against unrestricted operating costs of £9,928,687. The trustees report a strong cash position with no borrowing, noting flexibility to respond to changing conditions despite external pressures on pupil numbers. The independent auditors 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 HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mrs Maria Young — Headmistress (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)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• GERARD McCORMACKchair
• CHRISTOPHER JOHN FOWLER-TUTT
• Claire Cox
• Eddie Cunningham
• Gary Selby
• Helen Griffiths
• JULIE LYNN MICKLETHWAITE
• MARK RODNEY BERNARD
• Niamh Hills
• Sally Hayes
• Tabitha Brufal de Melgarejo
• Zoe Hawken

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Buckinghamshire · Hampshire · Reading · Slough · Surrey · West Berkshire · West Sussex · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• FARLEIGH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £11.7m
• ST GEORGE'S WEYBRIDGE income £35.5m
• SALESIAN COLLEGE FARNBOROUGH LIMITED income £10.2m
• Effingham Schools Trust income £25.5m
• HILL HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £10.7m
• WEST HILL SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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