ST PAUL'S GIRLS' SCHOOL

Registered charity 1119613 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of education to girls aged 11-18 by running an academically selective school offering a stimulating and ambitious programme of study with a rich and diverse extra-curricular programme. Bursaries enable a wide range of girls to take advantage of this exceptional education. The School's values and ethos are outlined on its website http://spgs.org/about/ethos/.

Objects

1 TO PROMOTE IN GREATER LONDON THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) OF GIRLS AND BOYS AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING TO CONDUCT AND MAINTAIN SCHOOLS IN OR NEAR TO GREATER LONDON FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.2 THE GOVERNORS SHALL PURSUE THE OBJECTS OF THE SCHOOL BY RUNNING A GIRLS SCHOOL AND MAY ONLY EDUCATE MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX WITH PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF AND SUBJECT TO ANY RESTRICTION IMPOSED BY THE MERCERS' COMPANY.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON

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: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the school generated a total net income from operations of £863,000, with total income of £30,542,000 and total expenditure of £29,679,000. Per the trustees' report, the school holds unrestricted funds of £41,717,000 and free reserves of £7,418,000, which exceed the stated minimum cash reserves policy of £4,500,000. The Governors and auditors confirm there are no material uncertainties over the school's financial viability, supporting the going concern basis.

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 6 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Paul's Girls' School (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Liz Hewer — High Mistress (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)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 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 (1,191 followers) · instagram (7,760 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Walter Julian Wathenchair
• Alexander Clayton
• Diana Charlotte Vernon
• GILLIAN LOW MA
• Geeta Khehar · trustee of 1 other charity
• Geoffrey Matthews
• Joy Claire Reymond
• Justine Archer
• Lisa Barclay
• Mairi Fiona Brewis
• Zeina Jalal Bain

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

Operates in: Hammersmith And Fulham

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 PAUL'S SCHOOL.

• ST PAUL'S SCHOOL income £48.2m
• ST PAUL'S GIRLS' SCHOOL PARENTS' GUILD income £77k
• ST PAUL'S SCHOOLS FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• THE ST PETER AND ST PAUL SCHOOL TRUST income £1.5m
• ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL, EDGBASTON income £5.2m
• ST CHRISTOPHER'S THE HALL SCHOOL, LIMITED income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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