SCEPTRE EDUCATION

Registered charity 1071852 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHILTERN EDUCATION TRUST, SCEPTRE

The Trust's primary aim is to provide a first class education to boys and girls from the ages of 7to 18. We seek to provide a structured, safe & caring educational environment in which students areencouraged to develop their full potential and acquire the discipline of learning how to learn,while upholding Christian teachings and beliefs.

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE FROM AGES FIVE TO EIGHTEEN IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO THEIR PARENTS TO ENABLE SUCH CHILDREN TO BE TAUGHT OTHERWISE THAN AT SCHOOL AS DEFINED IN THE EDUCATION ACT 1944 TO 1993 2) ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BRETHREN.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED

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 £199,960 for the year ended 31 December 2025, while the group reported a net deficit of £213,323. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £5,780,680, which the trustees consider sufficient to mitigate short to medium-term risks and maintain adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by mca Banbury Ltd. Discloses 4 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading 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: 92.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALVIN CLARKEchair
• JAKE DOUGLASS
• RUSSELL CHARLES KINGSTON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire · Northamptonshire

Income and spending

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• READING EDUCATION TRUST income £1.1m
• CHEAM SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £9.0m
• ERMINE EDUCATION TRUST income £3.1m
• UK CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS LTD income £1.0m
• THE HERON EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £1.6m
• CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP SCHOOL TRUST income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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