ST BENEDICT'S SCHOOL EALING

Registered charity 1148512 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity operates St Benedict's School, a Senior and Junior School, providing education for over 1,000 girls and boys between the ages of 3 and 18. It aims to educate pupils to make a positive contribution to society by "Teaching a Way of Living" and thus benefiting the public by providing a first class education independent of the State system.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus of £2,062,519 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted funds standing at £17,841,904. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified. Reserves are monitored against a policy target of maintaining free, undesignated reserves of at least one month's expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08093330

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Joe Smith — Headmaster and CEO (source)
• Rob Simmons — Headmaster of the Junior School and Nursery (source)
• Tracy Scott — Deputy Head Junior School (source)
• Catherine Bedwin — Bursar (source)
• Craig Wilks — Director of Teaching and Learning (source)
• Tara George — Director of Communications (source)
• Mandip Gill — Head of HR (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• JONES, Laurence Daniel — director, appointed 19/03/2026on trustee list
• ELLIOTT, Martin John Henry — director, appointed 19/06/2025on trustee list
• SAVAGE, Anna Louise — director, appointed 19/06/2025on trustee list
• YATES, Fiona — director, appointed 20/06/2024on trustee list
• CHATTERJEE, Amit, Dr — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• BLIXEN-FINECKE, Anne Marie — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• DAVIS, Michael Ian — director, appointed 02/12/2022on trustee list
• AVELLA, Alex — director, appointed 02/12/2022on trustee list
• PEREIRA-INACIO, Alex — director, appointed 17/03/2022on trustee list
• DAVIES-WRIGHT, Melissa — director, appointed 18/03/2021on trustee list
• NOCKLES, Rosalind — director, appointed 02/10/2020on trustee list
• MCCAMBRIDGE, Ambrose — director, appointed 09/03/2017not on trustee list
• BOYLE, Mary — director, appointed 09/03/2017on trustee list
• KEYTE, Paul Michael — director, appointed 09/03/2017on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Christopher Dominic, Rev — director, appointed 01/06/2012on trustee list
• BEDWIN, Catherine Mary — secretary, appointed 01/03/2016

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £1.5m. 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 ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL DAVISchair
• Alex Avella
• Alex Pereira-Inacio
• Amit Chatterjee
• Anna Savage
• Anne Blixen-Finecke
• Fiona Yates
• Laurence Daniel Jones
• Martin Elliott
• Mary Boyle
• Melissa Davies-Wright
• Paul Keyte
• REV AMBROSE MCCAMBRIDGE OSB · trustee of 1 other charity
• REVD DOMINIC TAYLOR
• Rosalind Nockles

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

Operates in: Ealing

Income and spending

Common questions

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 SCHOOL OF ST HELEN AND ST KATHARINE TRUST.

• THE SCHOOL OF ST HELEN AND ST KATHARINE TRUST income £16.5m
• THE OLD SCHOOL HENSTEAD EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £515k
• ST BENEDICT'S RC HIGH SCHOOL FUND income £265k
• ST EDWARD'S SCHOOL income £41.1m
• THE FOUNDATION OF ST. BENEDICT OF NURSIA income £238k
• ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL, EDGBASTON income £5.2m

Side by side with its peers

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