THE ROYAL PINNER SCHOOL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1128414 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grants awarded to help with the education of the sons and daughters of commercial travellers, sales representatives and manufacturers' agents, where the family has suffered adversity, for children at state, private day or boarding schools, college or university. A parent must have travelled to sell to the trade or business, not direct to the public. Children usually aged between 4 to 25.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased by £16,553 to £4,129,593, following a net expenditure that exceeded total resources received by £133,667. The Trustees note that while resources are diminishing, they retain the flexibility to use unrestricted funds to support eligible beneficiaries. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dixon Wilson Audit Services LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06805043

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Royal Pinner Educational Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• REYNOLDS, Nicholas — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• COOPER, Charles Ian — director, appointed 06/11/2024on trustee list
• SMITH, Sara Jane — director, appointed 03/07/2024on trustee list
• POOL, Elizabeth June — director, appointed 09/02/2022not on trustee list
• BROOKES, Gillian — director, appointed 15/02/2012not on trustee list
• WILSON, Stephen — director, appointed 15/02/2012on trustee list
• WRIGHT, Gillian Mary — secretary, appointed 01/11/2023

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Ian Cooper
• Elizabeth June Pool ACA
• GILLIAN BROOKES BA
• Nicholas Reynolds
• STEPHEN WILSON · trustee of 3 other charities
• Sara Jane Smith

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NICHOLAS CHAMBERLAINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION.

• NICHOLAS CHAMBERLAINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• THE STATIONERS' FOUNDATION income £291k
• BECKETT'S AND SARGEANT'S EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £284k
• THE ROYAL ALEXANDRA AND ALBERT SCHOOL income £11.3m
• MERCHANT TAYLORS' EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £336k
• THE ROWLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £378k

Side by side with its peers

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