CHIGWELL SCHOOL

Registered charity 1115098 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision and conduct of a day and/or boarding school in or near Chigwell or by such other means as the governors shall determine.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION AND CONDUCT OF A DAY AND/OR BOARDING SCHOOL IN OR NEAR CHIGWELL (" SCHOOL"), OR BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE GOVERNORS SHALL DETERMINE

Area of benefit: IN OR NEAR CHIGWELL

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds stood at £30.6m, though the trustees note that effectively all of this has been utilised in the partial funding of School premises and equipment, with an additional £11m loaned to fund improvements to permanent endowment land and buildings. The charity reports a net income from operations of £1.89m and holds external financing in the form of a secured loan of £12.1m to support its capital investment programme.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Damian King — Headmaster (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £380k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Roseanne Serrellichair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID MORRISS
• David Forbes Kenmir
• Denise Joy Mottram
• ISOBEL PECK
• Joanne Louise Hamill
• MARTIN JAMES HIGGINS
• Meera Ragha
• NICHOLAS ANTONY GARNISH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Opal Brown
• PURNIMA SEN
• Rev CHRISTOPHER MARK DAVIES · trustee of 1 other charity
• SUSIE ALIKER

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• ORLEY FARM SCHOOL TRUST income £9.6m
• DR CHALLONER'S SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £358k
• SHIPLAKE COURT LIMITED income £16.2m
• THE WELLINGTON COLLEGE income £76.2m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHIGWELL AND CHIGWELL ROW income £393k
• ST. MICHAEL'S SCHOOL TRUST income £7.8m

Side by side with its peers

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