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Sevenoaks Education Group

Registered charity 1101358 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SEVENOAKS SCHOOL

Sevenoaks School is a leading independent school that seeks to discover and develop to the full the academic and co-curricular potential of each of its circa 1,050 pupils.

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Latest income
£65.6m
Latest spending
£52.0m
Registered
2004
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming fund of £13.6m for the year, significantly higher than the previous year's £3.1m, largely due to a £12.5m donation from the Solefield School merger. The trustees maintain that reserves are appropriate, holding £13.2m in general funds to cover up to one term's operating costs, and confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's financial viability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: up to one term’s operating costs (held: £13.3m)
“The Governors’ intention is to hold up to one term’s operating costs in General Funds to provide an element of protection in an uncertain economic climate.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Sennocke Services Limited
“Sevenoaks School has a wholly owned non-charitable subsidiary, Sennocke Services Limited (“SSL”).” — page 3
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Total income
£65.6m
Total spending
£52.0m
Cost of raising funds
£1.9m
Reserves (reported)
£13.3m
Employees
608

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£65.6m£52.0m
31/07/2024£49.0m£45.8m
31/07/2023£43.2m£41.7m
31/07/2022£38.0m£39.2m
31/07/2021£34.9m£37.5m

Common questions

Is Sevenoaks Education Group financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming fund of £13.6m for the year, significantly higher than the previous year's £3.1m, largely due to a £12.5m donation from the Solefield School merger. The trustees maintain that reserves are appropriate, holding £13.2m in general funds to cover up to one term's operating costs, and confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's financial viability. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE APAX FOUNDATION1£45k

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
Sevenoaks Education Group£65.6m——unclear—no doubt
SEVENOAKS SCHOOL FOUNDATION FY2025£5.5m——unclear—no doubt
SOLEFIELD SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£2.0m£90,001 - £100,000—unclear—not going concern
ACF SEVENOAKS FY2025£399k—0above—noted
SEVENOAKS PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED FY2025£5.6m——unclear—no doubt
GREAT OAKS SMALL SCHOOL FY2025£1.9m——above—no doubt

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