TONBRIDGE SCHOOL

Registered charity 1097977 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q3531508 · Wikipedia

The objects of the charity are the advancement of education by the provision and conduct of a school at Tonbridge for boys as boarders, and, if the trustees think fit, as day boys and by ancillary or incidental educational activities and other associated activities for the overall benefit of the community.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION AND CONDUCT OF A SCHOOL IN OR NEAR TONBRIDGE FOR BOYS AS BOARDERS AND, IF THE GOVERNORS THINK FIT, AS DAY BOYS, AND BY ANCILLARY OR INCIDENTAL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND OTHER ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY

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.

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Registered contact address: Tonbridge and Malling, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £13,885k, meeting the Governors' target of 5.0% of net fee income plus a substantial allowance. However, the Group reported a net decrease in funds of £417k, driven by a £2,431k exceptional charge from the Independent Schools' Pension Scheme valuation and other sector-wide cost increases.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• James Priory — Headmaster (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)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% 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: 5.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gavin Mark Rochussenchair
• Charles James Ashton
• DESMOND PHILIP DEVITT
• Dr Francis Vijay Narasimhan Rangarajan
• Dr Nicola Perry
• Dr Tim Hands
• Earl of Woolton, Simon Frederick Woolton
• GRAHAM PETER WHITE
• Henry James Hamilton-Turner
• James Gerald Leahy
• James Robert Thomas Rogers
• Michael Ezran Fry
• Sian Carr
• Simon Adrian Hall
• Timothy Attenborough

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE TONBRIDGE SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £1.5m
• THE BRIDGE CHARITY income £133k
• TRENANCE CHILDCARE income £301k
• TUNBRIDGE WELLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR BOYS SCHOOL FUND income £782k
• TUNBRIDGE WELLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR BOYS PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION income £28k
• JOSEPH ROWNTREE SCHOOL FUND income £84k

Side by side with its peers

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