1509 GROUP

Registered charity 1084866 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, GUILDFORD, THE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, GUILDFORD LIMITED

The charity acts as the holding company for a series of companies. Royal Grammar School Guildford, Royal Grammar School Guildford, Foundation, RGS Guildford International Ltd, RGS Guildford International (Dubai) Ltd, RGS Guildford International (China) Ltd, RGS Guildford Enterprises Ltd.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group generated a net increase in funds of £1.3m for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £30.7m and expenditure of £29.5m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were £6.1m, which is slightly below the stated policy target of approximately £7m (equivalent to three months' operating expenditure). The Directors have adopted the going concern basis, confirming sufficient cash resources to meet obligations as they fall due.

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Jon Cox — Headmaster (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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SARAH KATHLEEN CREEDY MAchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Astrid Jenn-McAuliffe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Calvin Wright Ngwena
• Canon Simon Butler · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dr Lorraine Susan Kendrick Linton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Faye Emily Carter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karen Tania Atkinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kristina Spasic · trustee of 1 other charity
• LORD RUPERT CHARLES WILLIAM BULLARD ONSLOW · trustee of 1 other charity
• NICHOLAS EDWARD JOHN VINEALL QC · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicola Katrin Vale Nelson-Smith
• Peta-Anne Barrow · trustee of 1 other charity
• Profe Matthew James Humphreys
• Professor Helen Eleri Treharne
• Robert Nicholas Waterhouse · trustee of 1 other charity
• STEPHEN JOHN MEREDITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon George Gimson
• Thomas Edward Lingard · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Qatar · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Royal Grammar School Guildford.

• Royal Grammar School Guildford income £29.7m
• Highworth Grammar School Trust, School Fund income £565k
• THE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £3.1m
• MAYFIELD GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRAVESEND income £488k
• GGS SCHOOL FUND income £331k
• WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIMITED income £11.6m

Side by side with its peers

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