ST ALBANS SCHOOL

Registered charity 1092932 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance education and training, by the provision and conduct, in or near St Albans of a day school for boys and also for girls in the sixth form.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the School generated a net income of £1,280,000 and held unrestricted funds of £30,775,000, with free reserves of £6,980,000. The Governors consider these reserves adequate and regard the School as a going concern despite recent increases in costs such as VAT on fees and National Insurance.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 50 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Joe Silvester — Headmaster (source)
• Neil Osborn — Chairman of the Board of Governors (source)
• Anna Philpott — Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (9 freehold); recorded price paid £471k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 6.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Neil Frank Osbornchair
• ALASTAIR WOODGATE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anna Philpott
• Benjamin Charles Walker
• Carole Pomfret MA ACA
• Cheryl Joanne Millington
• Christopher Miles Oglethorpe
• Frances Elizabeth Lightowler
• Guy Rory Sanderson
• Matthew William Southworth Cawthorne
• Nigel Moore · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with St Albans Education Group.

• St Albans Education Group income £33.1m
• ST. ALBANS SCHOOL WOOLLAM TRUST income £1.7m
• ABINGDON SCHOOL income £34.7m
• ST COLUMBA'S COLLEGE AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL income £16.9m
• ST AUBYN'S (WOODFORD GREEN) SCHOOL TRUST income £6.3m
• ST PAUL'S SCHOOL income £48.2m

Side by side with its peers

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