THE GUILDHALL SCHOOL TRUST

Registered charity 1082472 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £1,428,353, driven by a surplus of £1,081,426 and unrealised investment gains of £346,927. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £627,126, which is above the stated policy target range of £350,000. The charity holds significant endowment and restricted reserves, with total net assets of £15,920,872.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04041975

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Guildhall School of Music and Drama (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Professor Orla O'Loughlin — Vice-Principal & Director of Drama (source)
• Professor Julian Philips — Head of Department (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• Caroline Stockmannchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher James Warren
• Emily Benn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gillian Mary Laidlaw
• Gina Hartnett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gunjan Sharma
• Julian Charles Miezitis
• Matthew David Green
• Michelle Dove-Clark
• Neil Ernest Alexander Constable
• Philip Noel
• Professor Jonathan Andrew Vaughan
• Rongrong Huo
• Xiao Rong Li-Yan-Hui

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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