JAMES ALLEN'S GIRLS' SCHOOL

Registered charity 1124853 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Independent School

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £2,882,006 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £32,784,265 and total expenditure of £30,275,850. Per the trustees' report, the school has no free reserves as defined by the Charity Commission due to its high fixed asset base and large endowment fund, but holds £13.4m in unencumbered investments which can be drawn down if needed. The governors confirmed there is no material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: JAGS COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 03636087 · Financial health read from its filings
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06618970

Funders the charity credits

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

• Art History Link-Up — “JAGS helps to fund an independent charity which teaches History of Art to pupils from lower income families.” (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.

• OWENS, Rachel Clare Fox — director, appointed 22/04/2025not on trustee list
• DAYKIN, Sameera — director, appointed 15/10/2024not on trustee list
• PARKS TAYLOR, Charlotte — director, appointed 15/10/2024on trustee list
• OBI-WHEELER, Ucheora — director, appointed 15/10/2024on trustee list
• HUSAIN, Shehla — director, appointed 13/09/2024on trustee list
• CUNNINGHAM, Robert Stephen — director, appointed 16/11/2021on trustee list
• HYNDMAN, Victoria Elizabeth London — director, appointed 31/08/2021on trustee list
• COLLINS, Richard Leycester — director, appointed 31/08/2021on trustee list
• FLOYD, Adrian — director, appointed 23/02/2021on trustee list
• LOYDON, Alexandra — director, appointed 29/06/2020on trustee list
• BIRD, Alan — director, appointed 01/09/2019on trustee list
• MARSHALL, Elizabeth Jane, Dr — director, appointed 01/11/2014on trustee list
• PECK, Jason — secretary, appointed 01/12/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

9 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold); recorded price paid £1.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (2,087 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 8.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Jane Marshallchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Adrian Floyd
• Alan Bird
• Alexandra Loydon
• Charlotte Parks-Taylor
• Milind Dhuru
• Richard Leycester Collins · trustee of 2 other charities
• Robert Cunningham
• Sameera Nasrin Khan
• Shehla Husain
• Ucheora Onyekachi Ifeyinwa Obi-Wheeler
• Victoria Elizabeth London Hyndman

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

Operates in: Southwark

Income and spending

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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 BLUNDELL'S SCHOOL.

• BLUNDELL'S SCHOOL income £19.5m
• DAME ALLAN'S SCHOOLS income £19.1m
• MALVERN ST JAMES LIMITED income £15.0m
• THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES income £1.8m
• LEICESTERSHIRE INDEPENDENT EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £7.2m
• THE INDEPENDENT JEWISH DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £977k

Side by side with its peers

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