THE OUNDLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1075698 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OSCT, THE OUNDLE SCHOOLS CHARITABLE TRUST, THE OUNDLE SOCIETY

Providing grants to The Corporation of Oundle School and pupils for the advancement of education at that school

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Foundation holds total net assets of £24,928,000, with unrestricted free reserves of £363,000, which is above the stated target level of £100,000. The Trustees report a strong net asset position and confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Investment returns underperformed objectives, but the overall financial position is described as well-placed to manage business risks successfully.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Oundle School Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dominic Oliver — Head (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• ExpertEd LIVE — “The Patron of ExpertEd LIVE is Professor Lord Robert Winston and our founding Supporters are: Imperial College London, Swansea University, A…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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, cost of raising funds: 20.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clive Andersonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHRISTOPHER MARK POWER GRANGER · trustee of 2 other charities
• JOHN SCOTT
• James Alexander Francis Purchas
• Lance Ashworth
• Siddarth Chand Lall

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CORPORATION OF OUNDLE SCHOOL.

• THE CORPORATION OF OUNDLE SCHOOL income £53.4m
• SEVENOAKS SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £5.5m
• AYLESBURY GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £160k
• THE SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £506k
• THE CHALLONER'S GIRLS FOUNDATION income £322k
• Bedford School Foundation Trust income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.