The Collegiate School Bristol

Registered charity 1079552 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COLLEGIATE SCHOOL, COLLEGIATE SCHOOL BRISTOL, COLSTON'S, COLSTON'S COLLEGIATE GOVERNORS LIMITED, COLSTON'S COLLEGIATE SCHOOL, COLSTON'S SCHOOL

Collegiate School is an independent day school for children aged 3 to 18.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group incurred a net expenditure of £421,686 for the year, a shift from the previous year's net income. Despite this deficit, the trustees report that the school has adequate resources to continue in operational existence and identified no material uncertainties regarding its ability 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 audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr. J. S. McCullough — Head (source)
• Mr J.S. McCullough — Head of School (source)
• Mr D.A.H. Edwards — Head of Prep (source)
• Dr P.B. Hill — Deputy Head, Senior School (source)
• Mrs K.J. Fisher — Finance Director (source)
• Mr S. Morrison — Facilities Director (source)
• Mr O.J.R. Barwell — Deputy Head, Prep (source)
• Ms S. Bannister — Assistant Head (Academic) (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNE BURRELL
• Alison Gail Bragg
• Bryn Allpress
• CAROLINE JANE DUCKWORTH · trustee of 2 other charities
• COLIN GREEN CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carolyn Tilley
• Dr Samir Patel
• Gillian Cross
• John Richard Wright
• Kathryn Ann Bishop CBE
• Mahesh Sooriyabandara · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Burchfield
• Martin John Hughes
• Martin Tayler
• NICHOLAS PAUL BAKER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Foley

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SCHOOL.

• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SCHOOL income £36.3m
• EXETER SCHOOL income £1.6m
• THE NORTH LONDON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL income £36.6m
• BRIGHTON COLLEGE income £80.7m
• ST ANDREW'S COLLEGE, BRADFIELD income £49.1m
• ST PETER'S COLLEGE, RADLEY income £47.6m

Side by side with its peers

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