CRANLEIGH FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1122918 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promotion and support of charitable purposes directly connected with Cranleigh School, provision of Bursaries to local children in extreme need and development of education and educational facilities.

Objects

THE OBJECT ("THE OBJECT") FOR WHICH THE FOUNDATION IS ESTABLISHED IS TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE DIRECTLY CONNECTED WITH CRANLEIGH SCHOOL ("THE SCHOOL"); AND IN THE EVENT THAT THE SCHOOL CEASES TO EXIST TO PROMOTE OTHER EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED IN PRACTICE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Waverley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document contains only Docusign envelope identifiers and a date, with no financial data, trustee reports, or auditor statements included. Consequently, no information regarding financial health, reserves, or governance is available for analysis.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06452540

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation — “The Cranleigh Foundation works with the Royal National Children’ Springboard Foundation, who identify looked after and vulnerable children w…” (source page)
• Lazard — “Lazard (match-fund of donation by Joanna Rivers)” (source page)
• Reedham Children’s Trust — “Reedham Children’s Trust” (source page)
• Pinewood Structures Limited — “Pinewood Structures Limited” (source page)
• Ling Cow Shipping Club — “Ling Cow Shipping Club” (source page)

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.

• ROBERTS, Patrick Temple — director, appointed 01/08/2026on trustee list
• SINDALL, Andrew John — director, appointed 18/05/2026not on trustee list
• GREENO, Edward Patrick — director, appointed 20/04/2026on trustee list
• ALLISON, Marie Christine — director, appointed 07/09/2020on trustee list
• LAJTHA, Adrian James — director, appointed 31/10/2016not on trustee list
• GRAHAM-RACK, Belinda Stephanie — director, appointed 22/11/2008on trustee list
• DELLIERE, Christian John — director, appointed 22/11/2008on trustee list
• SMITH, Nigel Preston — director, appointed 22/11/2008on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Graham John — director, appointed 07/10/2008on trustee list
• CRONK, Andrew Stuart — director, appointed 08/08/2008on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~198.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (80% 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: 9.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/08/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR MONTAGUE JOHN MEYERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ADRIAN JAMES LAJTHA MA FCIB · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREW STUART CRONK
• Andrew John Sindall BSc FCA · trustee of 2 other charities
• BELINDA STEPHANIE GRAHAM-RACK
• CHRISTIAN JOHN DELLIERE
• Edward Patrick Greeno
• GRAHAM WILLIAMS
• MARIE CHRISTINE ALLISON
• NIGEL PRESTON SMITH
• Patrick Temple Roberts

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• CRANLEIGH SCHOOL income £38.0m
• KINGSLEY FOUNDATION income £34k
• LANGLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION income £35k
• BIRMINGHAM RATHBONE SOCIETY income £2.0m
• THE BORROWS CHARITABLE TRUST income £478k
• Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Charity income £389k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.