FRIENDS OF THE LONDON ORATORY SCHOOL

Registered charity 1082226 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principle activities of the charity each year are to raise funds primarily from parental contributions and to remit these funds to The London Oratory School.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND FURTHER THE CHARITABLE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE LONDON ORATORY SCHOOL AND THE WELFARE AND EDUCATION OF THE REGISTERED PUPILS IN ATTENDANCE AT THE LONDON ORATORY SCHOOL.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON

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 the charity recorded a net deficit of £482,584 for the 18-month period, reducing unrestricted reserves from £1,174,409 to £691,825. The trustees consider the current reserve level prudent given the tough financial circumstances of the supported school and the potential for further deterioration in the funding climate. Despite the deficit, the charity maintains sufficient net assets to continue operations 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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 15.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Adamschair
• Charles Vincent De Paul Doyle
• Daniel Francis Wright
• Father John George Bowen
• Filipe Martins
• George Patrick Maher

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

Operates in: Hammersmith And Fulham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ORATORY SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION.

• THE ORATORY SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION income £10.9m
• LONDON ORATORY CHARITY income £2.2m
• THE FRIENDS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S SCHOOL income £2.2m
• LANCING COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT WORTHING LIMITED income £2.5m
• FRIENDS OF ORCHOS TORAH income £141k
• COMET CHARITIES LTD income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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