DOLPHIN SCHOOL TRUST

Registered charity 1145113 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal objective and activity of the trust in the year under review was that of the advancement of education in theUnited Kingdom and elsewhere with a view to providing a sound Christian and moral basis for all pupils

Objects

ADVANCMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN THE UK AND ELSEWHERE WITH A VIEW TO PROVIDING SOUND CHRISTIAN AND MORAL BASIS TO ALL PUPILS.

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 · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wandsworth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with unrestricted funds of £758,269 and a cash balance of £397,950. However, the Trustees report a free-reserves deficit of £382,408, noting that free reserves are below the level they consider desirable. The charity experienced a net expenditure of £35,503 for the year, primarily due to a challenging recruitment market and high inflation.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KWSR & Co Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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 31/08/2025 (received 20/08/2026, 51 days after the 30/06/2026 due date); year ending 31/08/2023 (received 07/11/2024, 130 days after the 30/06/2024 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)

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/04/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Petronella van der Vlietchair
• Andrew James Goodwin
• David Lusher
• Jack Champness
• Jessica Hopkins
• Katy Pickford
• William Colahan

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

Operates in: Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE DUCHESS'S HIGH SCHOOL TRUST.

• THE DUCHESS'S HIGH SCHOOL TRUST income £64k
• RUNTON DOLPHIN TRUST income £87k
• GJPS TRUST FUND income £349k
• THE DAIGLEN SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £1.6m
• THORPE HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST income £5.5m
• ST DAVID'S COLLEGE TRUST income £7.0m

Side by side with its peers

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