Highworth Grammar School Trust, School Fund

Registered charity 1076273 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HIGHWORTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, SCHOOL FUND

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUPILS OF HIGHWORTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE SCHOOL") BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL , RECREATIONAL AND OTHER CHARITABLE FACILITIES IN AUGMENTATION OF SUCH FACILITIES FINANCED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY OR THE DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION (DFE).

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUPILS OF HIGHWORTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE SCHOOL") BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL , RECREATIONAL AND OTHER CHARITABLE FACILITIES IN AUGMENTATION OF SUCH FACILITIES FINANCED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY OR THE DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (DFEE).

Area of benefit: KENT

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 total income was £564,714 against expenditure of £577,054, resulting in a net decrease in funds of £12,340. Free/unrestricted reserves stood at £32,158, which the trustees consider below their stated policy target of two months' budgeted expenditure (£96,000). The trustees confirm that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient for the charity to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/03/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Susan Soan
• Duncan Stewart Beer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ivor James Duffy
• Karen Britton
• Lynn Wilson
• Tom Jury

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIMITED.

• WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIMITED income £11.6m
• CAMDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION OF FRANCES MARY BUSS income £873k
• THE NORTHUMBRIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £2.9m
• FAIZAN-E-MADINA MOSQUE COMMITTEE (TRUST) income £536k
• MANCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS income £13.5m
• LEICESTER HIGH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

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