NEW SCHOOLS NETWORK

Registered charity 1132122 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7011437 · Wikipedia

The New Schools Network is an independent charity that aims to improve the quality of education, particularly for the most deprived, by making grants to schools and trusts within the state sector that are driving impactful educational innovation in areas of educational disadvantage.

Objects

THE OBJECTS (THE "OBJECTS") OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE, THROUGH ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN MAINTAINED CHARITABLE SCHOOLS (WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE EDUCATION ACTS) AND ACADEMIES (ESTABLISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ACADEMIES ACT 2010 OR ANY SUCCESSOR LEGISLATION) INCLUDING BY ASSISTING WITH THE CREATION OF NEW SCHOOLS OF THIS SORT, WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a decrease in net assets of £37,258 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £653,076. The trustees confirm that sufficient reserves exist to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months, supported by cash balances of £897,153. The charity's reserves policy indicates an intention to reduce reserve levels over time to fund objectives, acknowledging uncertainty in future donations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. Discloses 5 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
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Oil tycoon’s foundation among New Schools Network donors schoolsweek.co.uk · 02/12/2018

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06953650

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.

• HALL, David — director, appointed 28/04/2021on trustee list
• AMESS, Simon Alec — director, appointed 31/01/2020on trustee list
• JONES, Philip Antony, Dr — director, appointed 31/01/2020on trustee list
• KIRKBRIDE, Julie — director, appointed 17/10/2019on trustee list
• WELLER, Nicholas John, Sir — director, appointed 09/01/2018on trustee list
• ROSS, David Peter John — director, appointed 26/02/2016on trustee list
• HALL, David — secretary, appointed 01/11/2022

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2022)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.0% of total income.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID PETER JOHN ROSSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Hall
• Dr Philip Antony Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julie Kirkbride · trustee of 1 other charity
• NICHOLAS JOHN WELLER
• Simon Alec Amess

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 THE NEW GIRLS SCHOOL.

• THE NEW GIRLS SCHOOL income £1.9m
• NEW END SCHOOL ASSOCIATION income £191k
• NEWLAND HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £6.7m
• THE NEW SCHOOL income £1.8m
• SWITCH YOUTH SERVICES income £64k
• NEW LONDON EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £101k

Side by side with its peers

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