KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL BATH

Registered charity 1115875 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity's Objects are to advance the education of boys and girls by the provision of a day and/or boarding school in or near Bath and by ancillary or incidental educational activities and other associated activities for the benefit of the community.

Objects

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

Area of benefit: IN OR NEAR BATH

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: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £583,687 for the year, with total incoming resources of £19,990,606. The trustees note that free reserves are negative (£4,050,705) because retained surpluses are utilised for capital improvements, but they confirm the school can continue as a going concern based on conservative projections and available funding facilities.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• 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

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Martin J Boden — Headmaster (source)
• Sean Price — Head of the Pre-Prep and Junior School (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 (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (1,959 followers) · instagram (4,553 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~11.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• WINIFRED THOMSONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison Rees
• CATHERINE ANN COLSTON
• Gavin Clifford Bate · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ginny Chalmers
• Ian Bleakley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kambiz Moradifar
• MARK ROPER · trustee of 2 other charities
• MR J ISHERWOOD · trustee of 1 other charity
• PHILIP GAVIN COBB
• Peter Gist · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Richard Canter
• SIMON COOMBE

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Gloucestershire · North Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST EDWARD'S SCHOOL.

• ST EDWARD'S SCHOOL income £41.1m
• KING EDWARD VI SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £66k
• THE KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL BIRMINGHAM TRUST income £730k
• THE EDGBASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS income £13.1m
• THE JOHN BADLEY FOUNDATION income £487k
• THE KING'S SCHOOL WORCESTER income £20.8m

Side by side with its peers

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