Bedford School Foundation Trust

Registered charity 1094232 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEDFORD SCHOOL TRUST

The Trust is established to manage funds and property donated to Bedford School so as to promote the education of pupils at Bedford School, to provide scholarships and bursaries to assust pupils to attend the School,to assist with the further education of former pupils of the School, and to support the facilities and activities at the School.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets increased to £26,823,574, with unrestricted funds totaling £2,977,555. The trustees report that these unrestricted reserves represent four years of average unrestricted income, which is above their stated policy target of one to two years' typical income. The charity holds significant liquid assets, with £23,440,211 in cash or investment instruments, and the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Collett Hulance Accountants Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• James Hodgson — Head Master (source)
• Michael Sloan — Head Master Designate (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): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~23.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (56% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Michael Berman
• Ian Peck
• Isabel Dolan
• MARK HALL
• MARK TIMOTHY JOHN SISMEY-DURRANT · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROGER MARKS

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

Operates in: Bedford · Central Bedfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BIRKENHEAD SCHOOL FOUNDATION TRUST.

• BIRKENHEAD SCHOOL FOUNDATION TRUST income £367k
• ST BEDE'S SCHOOL TRUST SUSSEX income £36.2m
• BEDALES GRANTS TRUST FUND income £157k
• MERCHANT TAYLORS' EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £336k
• BEACHBOROUGH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £7.3m
• FRANCIS BANCROFT'S TRUST income £179k

Side by side with its peers

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