DAUNTSEY'S SCHOOL

Registered charity 1115638 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5228062 · Wikipedia

To provide a first class independent day and boarding co-education for pupils aged 11-18.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF BOYS AND GIRLS BY THE PROVISION OF A DAY AND/OR BOARDING SCHOOL IN OR NEAR WEST LAVINGTON AND BY ANCILLARY OF INCIDENTAL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND OTHER ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: WESTLAVINGTON

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: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the school reported a net loss of £694,230 for the year, primarily due to a £2,049,275 charge for the triennial valuation of the bursarial staff pension deficit. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £21,175,975, with £1,532,578 held in a designated unrestricted reserve, though the governors noted that the lack of substantial free reserves requires close management of day-to-day operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 3 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
• 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: DAUNTSEY'S SCHOOL ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 02956098
• Trading subsidiary: JOLIE BRISE LIMITED Companies House 03234906
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05872694

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• John Davies — Head Master (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.

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.

• STAFFORD-SMITH, Hugh — director, appointed 21/04/2026on trustee list
• MCCORMICK, David Anthony — director, appointed 21/01/2026on trustee list
• BARKLEM, Martyn Stephen — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• DAWSON, Sarah Cawdron — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• DAVIES, Rebecca Louise — director, appointed 06/02/2025on trustee list
• PAYNE-KUMAR, Sanjeen — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• RITCHIE, Lorna Rachel — director, appointed 19/04/2024on trustee list
• MUSGRAVE, Christopher Brendan — director, appointed 18/01/2024on trustee list
• OXLEY, Stephen Craig Kenneth — director, appointed 01/09/2022on trustee list
• ROSE, Christopher John — director, appointed 01/09/2022on trustee list
• HORGAN, Gavin William — director, appointed 01/01/2021on trustee list
• DOLMAN, Nicholas John — director, appointed 25/06/2020on trustee list
• CLIFFORD, Anthony Robin Edward — director, appointed 25/06/2020on trustee list
• GREEN, Joanna Lucy — director, appointed 06/12/2018on trustee list
• BRUGES, Kate Georgia — director, appointed 06/12/2018on trustee list
• LANE, Paul — secretary, appointed 01/04/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

18 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (18 freehold); recorded price paid £581k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Robin Edward Clifford
• CHRISTOPHER BRENDAN MUSGRAVE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher John Rose
• David Anthony McCormick
• Gavin William Horgan
• Hugh Stafford-Smith
• Joanna Lucy GREEN
• Kate Georgia BRUGES
• Lorna Rachel Ritchie
• Martyn Stephen Barklem
• Nicholas John Dolman
• Rebecca Louise Davies
• STEPHEN CRAIG KENNETH OXLEY
• Sanjeen Payne-Kumar
• Sarah Dawson

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DOWNHAM SCHOOL LIMITED.

• DOWNHAM SCHOOL LIMITED income £104k
• THE GODSTOWE PREPARATORY SCHOOL COMPANY LIMITED income £8.3m
• DERBY HIGH SCHOOL TRUST income £10.2m
• DURSTON HOUSE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £6.9m
• SHREWSBURY SCHOOL income £39.3m
• DOLPHIN SCHOOL TRUST income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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