THE ARNOLD FOUNDATION FOR RUGBY SCHOOL

Registered charity 1095856 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal aim of the Arnold Foundation for Rugby School is to raise funds:*to provide more bursary awards for boarding places, subject to parental means testing, thereby widening access to the School, so that more talented pupils may benefit from an education at Rugby School, irrespective of their families' ability to pay the fees, and*to help to improve the infrastructure of Rugby School.

Objects

TO FOSTER, PROMOTE AND ADVANCE CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH RUGBY SCHOOL ("THE SCHOOL") AND TO FOSTER, PROMOTE AND ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN GENERAL.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Rugby, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Foundation holds total funds of £24.85 million, supported by investment gains of £1.93 million. The Trustees report that the charity has adequate resources and facilities to continue as a going concern, with no material uncertainties identified. Reserves are managed to support bursary programmes, with a policy target of holding funds for two years of assistance.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2022 (received 28/05/2023, 28 days after the 30/04/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Arnold Foundation for Rugby School (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Arnold Foundation — “This includes boarders whose fees (and extras) are covered by the Arnold Foundation which supports talented children with a need for boardin…” (source page)

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/10/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Ejim-McCubbin
• Gareth Patrick John Parker-Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Verina Strain
• Jeremy Christopher Catterall Maddocks · trustee of 3 other charities
• Nicholas Patrick Bacon · trustee of 3 other charities
• Trevor John Strain · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

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 ABINGDON RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB LTD.

• ABINGDON RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB LTD income £61k
• THE RUGBY SCHOOL GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £358k
• RUGBY SCHOOL income £57.0m
• RUGBY FOOTBALL FOUNDATION income £24.9m
• THE ROYAL ALEXANDRA AND ALBERT SCHOOL income £11.3m
• ENGLAND RUGBY FOOTBALL SCHOOLS' UNION income £26k

Side by side with its peers

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