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SIR JOHN PORT'S CHARITY

Registered charity 1092298 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principle activity is to furthr the education of children and young persons.

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£35.9m
Latest spending
£34.2m
Registered
2002
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that income exceeded expenditure by £1,670,983 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a net movement in funds of £2,195,266. The charity holds total unrestricted and restricted funds of £97,260,150, with unrestricted funds standing at £11,711,329. The trustees confirm the charity 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

Reserves policy: in excess of £5,000,000 (held: £11.7m)
“The Trustees aim to maintain unrestricted funds in excess of £5,000,000.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (11 freehold); recorded price paid £1.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (4,624 followers) · instagram (11K followers)

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

Total income
£35.9m
Total spending
£34.2m
Cost of raising funds
£54k
Reserves (reported)
£11.7m
Employees
694

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£35.9m£34.2m
31/08/2024£34.3m£33.7m
31/08/2023£32.3m£30.6m
31/08/2022£29.9m£27.3m
31/08/2021£25.4m£24.5m

Common questions

Is SIR JOHN PORT'S CHARITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that income exceeded expenditure by £1,670,983 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a net movement in funds of £2,195,266. The charity holds total unrestricted and restricted funds of £97,260,150, with unrestricted funds standing at £11,711,329. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by HaysMac LLP.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
ASSOCIATION OF NHS CHARITIES1£676k
YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£3k
THE WOODWARD CHARITABLE TRUST1£1k
DIVINE RENOVATION UK1£0

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
SIR JOHN PORT'S CHARITY£35.9m——unclear—no doubt
ST JOHN'S SCHOOL FY2025£5.8m——unclear—no doubt
THE SIR JOHN SEDLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION FY2025£221k—0above—no doubt
SIR WALTER ST.JOHN'S EDUCATIONAL CHARITY FY2026£218k—0above—no doubt
THE PORTO CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026£70k—0unclear—no doubt
PORTICUS UK FY2024£1.5m——unclear—not going concern

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