BRUTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

Registered charity 1085577 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The School's aim is to provide a first class independent education, both through strong academic tuition, and through developing wider sporting, artistic and social skills in all its pupils. This is intended to provide an environment where each pupil can develop and fulfil her potential, thus to help build self-confidence and inculcate a desire to contribute to the wider community.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the school closed in July 2022 and the nursery closed in July 2025, resulting in a deficit of £841k for the year ended 30 June 2025. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves reduced to £577k, and the charity remains a going concern only due to the financial support of its parent company, King’s School Bruton, which has cleared school creditors and provided loans.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: THE BRUTON GIRLS' SCHOOL COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 03107892
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04094352

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.

• WILMSHURST, Ian Stephen — director, appointed 01/07/2026on trustee list
• HOPKINS, Justin Broderick — director, appointed 30/08/2023on trustee list
• HOBHOUSE, Edward George — director, appointed 01/03/2022on trustee list
• TUSON, Louis Simon — director, appointed 01/03/2022on trustee list
• TUSON, Louis Simon — secretary, appointed 17/08/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (73% 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: 5.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• EDWARD GEORGE HOBHOUSEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ian Stephen Wilmshurst
• Justin Broderick Hopkins
• Louis Simon Tuson

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KING'S SCHOOL, BRUTON.

• KING'S SCHOOL, BRUTON income £17.7m
• KINGSHOTT SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £4.9m
• BUTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS LIMITED income £8.7m
• HOLLYGIRT SCHOOL income £3.2m
• BROMSGROVE SCHOOL income £45.5m
• TAUNTON SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL CHARITY income £30.5m

Side by side with its peers

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