THE SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1073522 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote the charitable purposes of Sherborne School in Dorset and to promote any other charitable purpose connected with or otherwise associated with the School.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF SHERBORNE SCHOOL, SHERBORNE, DORSET AND OTHERWISE TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE CONNECTED WITH OR OTHERWISE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SCHOOL

Area of benefit: SHERBORNE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £17,053 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in total net assets of £350,935. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £156,453, while restricted reserves stood at £194,482. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence 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 Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2022 (received 11/05/2023, 11 days after the 30/04/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 25.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sam Smallchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Samler
• JOHN DAVID WILLIAM POCOCK
• Louise Hall
• Padmini Sekhsaria · trustee of 2 other charities
• RORY STEPHEN POWE
• Tawhid Ali · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Simon Paul

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SHERBORNE GIRLS FOUNDATION.

• THE SHERBORNE GIRLS FOUNDATION income £163k
• SEATON HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £2.3m
• SHERBORNE HOUSE TRUST 2018 income £5.6m
• SHERBORNE MUSEUM income £62k
• THE BOURNE FOUNDATION income £36k
• THE OLD SHIRBURNIAN SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST 1975 income £53k

Side by side with its peers

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