STOCKPORT GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Registered charity 1120199 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The School's object is to advance education by the provision and conduct, in or near Stockport, of a school for boys and girls and insofar as it is incidental or ancillary, such other purposes for the benefit of the local community as shall be exclusively charitable.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £981,477 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total reserves increasing to £32.9 million. The trustees confirmed that the school has adequate resources to continue its activities for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties regarding its financial viability.

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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: STOCKPORT GRAMMAR SCHOOL (2007) LIMITED Companies House 03053242
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06261525

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Stockport Grammar School (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mrs Sarah Capewell — Head (source)
• Mr Ian Kendrick — Deputy Head (Academic) (source)
• Mrs Jo White — Deputy Head (Safeguarding and Wellbeing) (source)
• Mrs Jackie Smith — Deputy Head (Staffing and Co-Curricular) (source)
• Mr Adam Power — Assistant Head (Character and Culture) (source)
• Mr Richard Heyes — Assistant Head (Data Reporting and Timetabling) (source)
• Mr Alex Philips — Assistant Head (Operations and Outreach) (source)
• Mr David Stone — Head of Sixth Form (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.

• ROUGHTON, John Gerard Peter — director, appointed 23/06/2026on trustee list
• LANSBURY, Samantha — director, appointed 24/03/2026on trustee list
• WHYLIE, Mark Kenneth — director, appointed 14/10/2025on trustee list
• MCILWRAITH, Ian — director, appointed 14/10/2025on trustee list
• BOOK, Shazia Latif — director, appointed 10/12/2024on trustee list
• SMITH, Jenny Louise — director, appointed 19/03/2024on trustee list
• BREARLEY, Paul Nicholas — director, appointed 19/03/2024on trustee list
• POTTER, Timothy James — director, appointed 17/01/2024on trustee list
• TRITSCHLER, Hazel Anna Marie — director, appointed 05/12/2023on trustee list
• CARFRAE, Krishanthi Sarah — director, appointed 30/05/2023on trustee list
• FIRTH, Tim — director, appointed 09/12/2022on trustee list
• MILLINGTON, John — director, appointed 18/10/2022on trustee list
• SHACKLETON, John Anthony — director, appointed 08/12/2015on trustee list
• SIMPSON, Adrian Charles — director, appointed 31/03/2015on trustee list
• CARR, Anthony Paul — director, appointed 15/10/2013on trustee list
• CARROLL, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 01/09/2007on trustee list
• CLAGUE, Joanne — secretary, appointed 26/03/2021

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

19 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (15 freehold); recorded price paid £1.3m. 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 ~15.9 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 (97% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Nicholas Brearleychair
• Adrian Simpson
• Anthony Carr
• Hazel Anna-Marie Tritschler
• Ian McIlwraith
• JOHN SHACKLETON
• Jenny Louise Smith
• John Gerard Peter Roughton
• John Millington
• Krishanthi Carfrae
• Mark Whylie
• SAMANTHA LANSBURY
• SARAH JANE CARROLL
• Shazia Latif Book
• Tim Firth
• Timothy James Potter

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

Operates in: Stockport

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL (HAMPSTEAD) LIMITED.

• ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL (HAMPSTEAD) LIMITED income £5.5m
• BURY GRAMMAR SCHOOLS CHARITY income £18.5m
• WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIMITED income £11.6m
• THE PETERBOROUGH SCHOOL LIMITED income £8.2m
• HAMPTON SCHOOL income £35.7m
• THE EDGBASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS income £13.1m

Side by side with its peers

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