BRISTOL GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Registered charity 1104425 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRISTOL GRAMMAR SCHOOL TRUST

Bristol Grammar School is a co-educational selective independent day school taking children from age 4 to 18 with nearly 1,300 pupils. As well as high academic standards we also provide excellent pastoral care and a huge range of extra-curricular activities.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit on unrestricted funds of £258,508 for the year ended 31 August 2025, following the introduction of VAT on school fees and increased staff costs. Despite this operational deficit, the charity maintains a strong financial position with unrestricted reserves of £16,816,964 and a year-end cash balance of £7,862,119, which the directors confirm is sufficient to meet working capital requirements and service outstanding loans.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £220,001 - £230,000 (FY2024) to £260,001 - £270,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: BGS ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 02630377
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05142007

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jaideep Barot — Head of Bristol Grammar School (source)
• Mark Wilson — Chair of Governors (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RICKS, Catherine Louise, Dr — director, appointed 10/03/2026on trustee list
• SHEPHERD, Catherine Mary — director, appointed 15/10/2025on trustee list
• NATHWANI, Falguni, Dr — director, appointed 10/10/2025on trustee list
• MCCARTHY, Tadhg Liam — director, appointed 09/09/2025on trustee list
• O'MAHONY, Christian Michael — director, appointed 06/01/2025on trustee list
• LEGGATE, Emily Laura Ellis — director, appointed 07/02/2024on trustee list
• HARVEY, Shaun Scott Spencer — director, appointed 01/10/2023on trustee list
• HUTCHISON, Sumita — director, appointed 01/10/2023on trustee list
• BOULTON, Martin Andrew, Dr — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• HUCKLE, Peter Reginald — director, appointed 23/06/2023on trustee list
• ALKER STONE, Mark Andrew — director, appointed 16/11/2022not on trustee list
• PARR, Lucinda Annabella — director, appointed 01/11/2022on trustee list
• CHESHAM, Ian Paul — director, appointed 16/08/2022on trustee list
• MOORE, Andrew Michael — director, appointed 08/06/2022on trustee list
• SPEAKE, Sally Rose — director, appointed 31/05/2022on trustee list
• MAY, Jonathan — director, appointed 01/03/2021on trustee list
• DRAKE, Hannah — director, appointed 06/11/2020on trustee list
• GAINSBOROUGH, Mary, Dr — director, appointed 05/02/2020on trustee list
• REDSHAW, Catherine Ghislaine — director, appointed 26/04/2017not on trustee list
• CRAYTON, Maria — director, appointed 28/10/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

15 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (15 freehold); recorded price paid £865k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 2.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew James Moore
• Catherine Mary Shepherd
• Christian Michael O'Mahony
• David Shelton
• Dr Catherine Louise Ricks
• Dr Falguni Nathwani · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr MARTIN BOULTON
• Dr MARY GAINSBOROUGH
• Emily Laura Ellis Leggate
• Hannah Drake
• Ian Paul Chesham
• John Sisman
• Jonathan May
• MARK ROBERT WILSON
• Mark Alker Stone
• Peter Reginald Huckle
• Sally Rose Speake
• Shaun Scott Spencer Harvey
• Sumita Hutchison · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tadhg Liam McCarthy

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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