KING'S SCHOOL, BRUTON

Registered charity 1071997 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The school's objects are as follows:-* The advancement of education through the provision of an independent and boarding school;* To maintain its tradition of a Christian education.The school's main activity is to operate a senior school, King's School, at Bruton and a preparatory and pre-prep school, Hazlegrove, at Sparkford.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total group income was £17,664,809, resulting in a net loss of £139,208 for the year, largely due to the closure of Bruton School for Girls. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £25,808,244, and the Governors consider the School financially robust with adequate cash flows to meet liabilities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Matt Radley — Headmaster (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)

9 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (9 freehold); recorded price paid £830k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 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: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Clutterbuck
• Alistair Speers
• Charlotte Townsend
• Christopher Ros Stewart Birrell
• David Sage
• EDWARD GEORGE HOBHOUSE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Gareth Evans
• Giles Pretor-Pinney
• Honor Stanley
• Justin Broderick Hopkins
• Lorne Fiona Hodges Mrs
• Nicholas Buckland · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Paul

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRUTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.

• BRUTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS income £243k
• HAMPSHIRE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION TRUST income £1.9m
• BROMSGROVE SCHOOL income £45.5m
• THE KING'S SCHOOL OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY income £52.8m
• KING'S SCHOOL, ROCHESTER income £13.0m
• KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE income £8.1m

Side by side with its peers

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