THE ST GABRIEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1062748 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST GABRIELS SCHOOL

The charitable objects are to promote and provide for the advancement of education of the pupils at the School and in connection with that to expand and develop the school with a curriculum in accordance with the principals of the Church of England.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the financial statements have been prepared on a basis other than going concern due to an impending merger with The Mill Hill School Foundation scheduled for October 2026. The charity reported a net expenditure of £504,536 for the year and holds no free reserves as defined by the Charity Commission, with unrestricted funds standing at £1,871,214.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02590761

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ricki Smith — Principal (source)
• Emma Hammons — Vice-Principal (source)
• Penny Setter — Bursar (source)
• Peter Dove — Head of Junior School (source)
• Anna Chicken — Deputy Head (Academic) (source)
• Rebecca Wright — Deputy Head (Pastoral) (source)
• Hannah Trevis — Head of Sixth Form (source)
• Jennifer Shillaw — Head of Upper School (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.

• JONES, Christopher Richard — director, appointed 24/03/2025on trustee list
• RANKIN, Jonathan Frederick Neal — director, appointed 03/12/2018on trustee list
• HUTTON, Sarah Victoria — director, appointed 19/03/2018on trustee list
• HEYWOOD, Joanne Margaret — director, appointed 01/02/2017on trustee list
• PEAPLE, Derek John — director, appointed 14/03/2016on trustee list
• WHITEHEAD, Jane — director, appointed 05/11/2012on trustee list
• RYAN, Sean Matthew — director, appointed 21/11/2006on trustee list
• BARRETT, Simon Ralph — director, appointed 01/09/2001on trustee list
• GARLAND, Nigel Charles — director, appointed 15/09/1999on trustee list
• BOWEN, Sarah Anne — director, appointed 07/09/1998on trustee list
• SETTER, Penelope Jane — secretary, appointed 18/04/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• NIGEL CHARLES GARLANDchair
• CHRISTOPHER JONES
• Derek John Peaple
• JANE WHITEHEAD
• Joanne Margaret Heywood
• Jonathan Frederick Neal Rankin · trustee of 1 other charity
• SARAH ANNE BOWEN
• SEAN RYAN
• SIMON RALPH BARRETT
• Sarah Victoria Hutton

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Hampshire · Oxfordshire · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Wiltshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EXETER CATHEDRAL SCHOOL.

• EXETER CATHEDRAL SCHOOL income £2.7m
• ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL, EDGBASTON income £5.2m
• THE SISTERS OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION (ST. GILDAS) CIO income £329k
• THE FULHAM BOYS SCHOOL FOUNDATION CIO income £851k
• OneSchool Global UK income £55.5m
• ST PAUL'S SCHOOLS FOUNDATION income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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