ST BEES SCHOOL

Registered charity 1129534 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7587252 · Wikipedia

THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND BOARDING FOR BOYS AND GIRLS TOGETHER WITH ANCILLIARY EDUCATIONAL AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING A SUMMER SCHOOL FOR LOCAL CHILDREN.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF BOYS AND GIRLS BY THE PROVISION OF A DAY AND / OR BOARDING SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS IN OR NEAR ST BEES OR ELSEWHERE IN CUMBRIA AND BY ANCILLARY OR INCIDENTAL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND OTHER ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: ST BEES OR ELSEWHERE IN CUMBRIA

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: Cumberland, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net consolidated deficit of £1,686 for the year, with unrestricted reserves of £1,237,286 but no free reserves available. The trustees acknowledge material uncertainties regarding the viability of re-establishing the school, yet maintain that the going concern basis remains valid.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2024 (received 26/06/2025, 26 days after the 31/05/2025 due date); year ending 31/07/2023 (received 11/04/2025, 315 days after the 31/05/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (10 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Georgechair
• Alastair Lord
• Dr Adrian Mark Simper
• Dr David John Thornley
• Mark Norman ROBERTS
• Peter Garth Lever
• Thomas Kelly

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST BEDE'S FOUNDATION.

• ST BEDE'S FOUNDATION income £7.9m
• BETHANY SCHOOL income £8.8m
• BEES KNEES CHILDCARE CENTRE income £54k
• Town Close Educational Trust Ltd income £6.2m
• BOOTHAM SCHOOL income £13.7m
• ST CLEMENTS AND ST JAMES SCHOOL TRUST income £26k

Side by side with its peers

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