COLFE'S SCHOOL

Registered charity 1109650 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COLFE'S EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROVISION AND CONDUCT OF A DAY SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND GIRLS IN OR NEAR THE LONDON BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM AND, IN SO FAR AS IT IS INCIDENTAL OR ANCILLARY TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, SUCH OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that consolidated funds increased by £1,788,000 to £24,775,000, driven by revenue fee growth and trading gains from the subsidiary. The trustees report sufficient unrestricted reserves of £7.2m against a policy target of £6.2m, and confirm no material uncertainties regarding the entity's ability to continue as a going concern despite sector-wide cost pressures.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Leathersellers’ Company — “Leathersellers’ Scholarships (fully-funded Sixth Form places). A limited number of scholarships are awarded each year, supported by funding …” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

9 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (9 freehold); recorded price paid £1.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 2.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MATTHEW PELLEREAUchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Damian Adam Paul King · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel George Coulson
• Dr Nicola Jones
• Edward Alexander Dove
• James Russell
• Joseph Mafe
• Julie Anne Bradley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Edwin Russell
• Martin David John Dove · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Hedley
• Nicholas Oliver Preston
• Professor Heidi de Wet · trustee of 1 other charity
• Serena Cooke
• Timothy Norman Bramham Lister

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

Operates in: Kent · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• MATTHEW PELLEREAU — trustee here and at COLFE'S CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DULWICH COLLEGE.

• DULWICH COLLEGE income £59.4m
• DR CHALLONER'S SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £358k
• ST OLAVE'S SCHOOL TRUST income £3.4m
• HALCYON LONDON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL income £5.9m
• THE CENTRAL FOUNDATION SCHOOLS OF LONDON income £1.7m
• THE DULWICH SCHOOL CRANBROOK income £8.3m

Side by side with its peers

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