PMC Education Trust

Registered charity 1105544 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PLYMOUTH COLLEGE, PLYMOUTH COLLEGE AND ST DUNSTAN'S ABBEY SCHOOLS CHARITY

Provision of bursaries and scholarships to the pupils of Plymouth College.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's free reserves are in surplus by £831,932, with no indebtedness remaining after the sale of its school business. Per the trustees' report, the principal source of future funds will be investment activities and legacies, with no material uncertainties identified regarding the going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Francis Clark. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Peter Watts — Headmaster (source)
• Stephen Plant — Chair of Local Advisory Board (source)
• Nicholas Grenfell-Marten — Proprietor (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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Edward Clifford
• Christopher Douglas Morton
• Jennifer Beanland
• Joseph Bennett
• Marina Leigh
• Rev JAMES GRIER
• William Maxwell Duncan · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon · Plymouth City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PLYMOUTH HIGHBURY TRUST.

• PLYMOUTH HIGHBURY TRUST income £1.7m
• ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £2.0m
• ST MARY'S COLLEGE CROSBY TRUST LIMITED income £11.5m
• DR CHALLONER'S SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £358k
• CLIFTON COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £171k
• BEACHBOROUGH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £7.3m

Side by side with its peers

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