Sedbergh Schools Group

Registered charity 1080672 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7445151 · Wikipedia · also known as SEDBERGH SCHOOL

Education / training

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY CARRYING ON IN GREAT BRITAIN A SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS AT WHICH INFANTS, CHILDREN AND STUDENTS MAY OBTAIN EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTION IN ACADEMIC, SPORTING, MUSICAL, CULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, RELIGIOUS, VOCATIONAL, SOCIAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS ACTIVITIES AND CRAFTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION

Area of benefit: GREAT BRITAIN

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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Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group produced a positive net income of £0.556m and total funds increased to £20.792m. However, the Group holds net current liabilities of £6.951m, primarily due to fees received in advance, which are managed through invested prepaid fees and bank facilities. The trustees confirm the School has adequate resources 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 HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Ardvreck School joins Sedbergh Schools Group independentschoolmanagement.co.uk · 18/06/2026
• 30 minutes with…Dan Harrison, executive head, Sedbergh Schools Group schoolmanagementplus.com · 22/04/2026
• Terrington Hall Prep School to join Sedbergh Schools Group independentschoolmanagement.co.uk · 21/04/2026
• Terrington Hall to join Sedbergh Schools Group schoolmanagementplus.com · 21/04/2026
• Sedbergh Schools Group launches independentschoolmanagement.co.uk · 18/04/2026
• Sedbergh Schools Group launches studytravel.network · 17/04/2026

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03946280

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SIMMS, Jonathan Daniel — director, appointed 01/06/2026not on trustee list
• LAMONT, Katharine Elizabeth — director, appointed 01/06/2026not on trustee list
• COOK, Christine Ann — director, appointed 01/09/2025not on trustee list
• KEITH, Irene Agnes — director, appointed 13/05/2025not on trustee list
• INESON, Mathew David, Revd — director, appointed 01/09/2021on trustee list
• BIGGS, Richard Roger — director, appointed 01/09/2021on trustee list
• DAVIES, Timothy John — director, appointed 01/09/2021on trustee list
• DURRANS, Ian Willcox — director, appointed 10/03/2018on trustee list
• GREGORY, Andrew Richard, Sir — director, appointed 01/09/2016not on trustee list
• PAPWORTH, Richard Noel — director, appointed 07/03/2015on trustee list
• CAMPBELL, John Donington — director, appointed 07/03/2015on trustee list
• BENNETT, Barry William — secretary, appointed 22/04/2025

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (8,991 followers) · instagram (18K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% 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: 8.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/05/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Ann Cook BEd
• IAN WILLCOX DURRANS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Irene Agnes Keith BA, CA
• John Donington Campbell
• Jonathan Daniel Simms BA
• Katharine Elizabeth Lamont MA, MBA
• Lt Gen Sir Andrew Richard Gregory KBE CB DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• RICHARD ROGER BIGGS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Mathew David Ineson
• Richard Noel Papworth
• Timothy John Davies · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 THE SEDBERGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION.

• THE SEDBERGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £999k
• BEDALES SCHOOL income £24.8m
• Nottingham High School Education Group Limited income £23.6m
• JESSE GRAY SCHOOL FUND income £54k
• POWNALL HALL SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £3.9m
• BLOXHAM SCHOOL LIMITED income £19.1m

Side by side with its peers

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