BOLTON SCHOOL

Registered charity 1110703 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4940227 · Wikipedia

Provision of education

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY CARRYING ON IN GREAT BRITAIN A SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS AT WHICH INFANTS, CHILDREN AND STUDENTS MAY OBTAIN EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTION IN ACADEMIC, SPORTING, MUSICAL, CULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, RELIGIOUS, VOCATIONAL, SOCIAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS ACTIVITIES AND CRAFTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AND MAKING THE BENEFIT OF THE SAME AVAILABLE WHERE POSSIBLE FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE BOLTON, GREATER MANCHESTER.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Bolton, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a net deficit of £1.1 million for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a decrease in total fund balances to £35.9 million. The trustees confirm that the School has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified. The defined benefit pension scheme remains in a deficit of £1.7 million, which is secured against freehold properties.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

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

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: BOLTON SCHOOL SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 02783995 · Financial health read from its filings
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05458883

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.

• QUAYLE, Chris — director, appointed 01/09/2024not on trustee list
• BANERJEE, Suvadip — director, appointed 20/07/2022on trustee list
• GIBSON, Victoria, Dr — director, appointed 25/04/2022on trustee list
• CRAVEN, William John — director, appointed 03/12/2021on trustee list
• MCGUFFIE, Stewart Robert — director, appointed 01/10/2021on trustee list
• CHADWICK, James Kenneth — director, appointed 01/10/2021on trustee list
• CLINTON, Katherine Helen — director, appointed 01/10/2021on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Timothy Paul — director, appointed 29/11/2019on trustee list
• BAILEY, Sylvia Joy — director, appointed 29/11/2019on trustee list
• APSION, George Robert Neville — director, appointed 07/10/2016on trustee list
• RILEY, Ian — director, appointed 21/03/2014on trustee list
• DIGGLE, Karen Wendy — director, appointed 04/03/2013on trustee list
• VALENTINE, Amanda Jayne — director, appointed 27/02/2009on trustee list
• FOX, Catherine Lisa — secretary, appointed 01/09/2011

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

21 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (13 freehold); recorded price paid £433k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — below 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: 5.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• AMANDA JAYNE VALENTINE
• Christopher Quayle
• Dr Victoria Gibson
• George Robert Neville Apsion
• Ian Riley · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Chadwick
• KAREN WENDY DIGGLE
• Katherine Helen Clinton
• Stewart McGuffie
• Suvadip Banerjee · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sylvia Joy Bailey
• Timothy Paul Taylor
• William John Craven · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bolton

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 FINTON HOUSE EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

• FINTON HOUSE EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £8.0m
• BALLARD SCHOOL LIMITED income £7.4m
• BLUNDELL'S SCHOOL income £19.5m
• THISTLEDOWN EDUCATION TRUST income £2.1m
• WELLINGTON SCHOOL 1837 income £18.3m
• BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE LIMITED income £94k

Side by side with its peers

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