DUKE OF KENT SCHOOL

Registered charity 1064183 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charty operates an independent school in rural Surrey. It caters for approximately 300 children between the ages of 3 and 16

Objects

PROMOTE AND PROVIDE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF QUALIFIED CHILDREN IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING IN THE UK OR ELSEWHERE A BOARDING AND/OR DAY SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS FOR THE EDUCATION OF QUALIFIED AND OTHER CHILDREN. (QUALIFIED CHILDREN MEANS CHILDREN OF MEMBERS OF THE RAF WHO ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE).

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £19,220 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total incoming resources of £6,343,003. However, the trustees report that the School has negative free reserves of £191,885, as surpluses have been reinvested into school properties rather than held as cash reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Alliotts LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Duke of Kent School in Ewhurst, Surrey announces new Head essentialsurrey.co.uk · 18/02/2020

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Tom Southee — Deputy Head and Head of Safeguarding (DSL) (source)
• Mr Alex Seeley — Director of Teaching and Learning (source)
• Mr Adam Wyllie — Head of Senior School (source)
• Mr Chris Wright — Head of Prep & Pre-prep and Deputy DSL (source)
• Mrs Caroline Instone — Head of Learning Development (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)

1 registered title 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• RICHARD BROCKSOMchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ALEXANDER RUPERT WILLIAM BALLS
• Adrian Bernard Bond
• Catherine Ann Wilson
• DOUGLAS MACIAN JACK
• Jennifer Susan Cropper
• Joanne Hendriksen
• PENELOPE MAY MCKENNA
• STEPHEN DALLYN

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KINGS HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST (RICHMOND) LIMITED.

• KINGS HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST (RICHMOND) LIMITED income £9.6m
• DUNNINGTON CHILDREN income £287k
• KING'S SCHOOL, ROCHESTER income £13.0m
• THE DULWICH SCHOOL CRANBROOK income £8.3m
• CATERHAM SCHOOL income £48.8m
• HAMPSHIRE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION TRUST income £1.9m

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