THE WEST BUCKLAND SCHOOL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1096487 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WEST BUCKLAND SCHOOL FOUNDATION

To promote the charitable purposes of West Buckland School.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF WEST BUCKLAND SCHOOL, BARNSTAPLE, DEVON AND OTHERWISE TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE CONNECTED WITH OR OTHERWISE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SCHOOL

Area of benefit: WEST BUCKLAND SCHOOL, BARNSTAPLE,DEVON

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased from £2,607,046 to £2,578,875, driven by a net expenditure exceeding income. The trustees report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, noting that sufficient cash reserves are maintained to pay bursary fees each term.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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Trustees · trustee networks

• DR TOM BIGGE
• Mr Bill Geen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Smalley

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEST BUCKLAND SCHOOL.

• WEST BUCKLAND SCHOOL income £11.9m
• THE WELLINGTON SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £320k
• THE WEST FOUNDATION income £77k
• SEVENOAKS SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £5.5m
• THE BOLTON SCHOOL BURSARY FOUNDATION income £11.9m
• THE SEDBERGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £999k

Side by side with its peers

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