CONFEDERATION OF SCHOOL TRUSTS

Registered charity 1107640 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FASNA, FOUNDATION, AIDED SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, FREEDOM AND AUTONOMY FOR SCHOOLS - NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, THE FOUNDATION AND AIDED SCHOOLS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION- THE MERGER OF AFVAS AHFAS AND FAVASA

The Confederation of School Trusts (CST) is the national organisation and sector body for school trusts in England advocating for, connecting and supporting executive and governance leaders.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group achieved a surplus of £71,712 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income increasing to £3,712,117. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,463,208, which is above the stated policy target of approximately £889,461 required for an orderly wind down. The group maintains a strong cash position of £2,724,211 and the auditor confirmed no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (75% 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: 61.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir Mufti Hamid Patel CBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward Francois Vainker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jacqueline Anne Russell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lorrayne Hughes
• Luke Dunstan Sparkes · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAMELA WENDY ANNE TUCKETT
• Pamela Avril Wright FRSA OBE
• Stephen John Snelson
• Susan Frances Douglas CBE

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHEAM SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

• CHEAM SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £9.0m
• Effingham Schools Trust income £25.5m
• THE COMMONWEALTH EDUCATION TRUST income £239k
• CASTLE COURT SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £3.5m
• THE CAMBRIAN EDUCATION TRUST income £4.3m
• THE COVENTRY SCHOOL EDUCATION TRUST income £349k

Side by side with its peers

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