SILCOATES SCHOOL

Registered charity 1158796 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Independent Co-Educational Day School for 3 - 18 yrs : Silcoates Senior & Junior Schools. Affiliated to United Reformed Church.

Objects

TO ADVANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND CARRYING ON, MANAGING AND DEVELOPING DAY AND/OR BOARDING SCHOOLS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS AND IN PARTICULAR BOYS AND GIRLS WHOSE PARENT OR PARENTS ARE MEMBERS OF THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH ("THE URC") OR A CHURCH OF THE CONGREGATIONAL DENOMINATION. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £207,000 for the year, with unrestricted reserves standing at £6,531,000. The governors consider that there is no current need to build up free reserves given the strength of the balance sheet and available banking facilities. The charity maintains a reserves policy based on forecasting future financial outcomes and cash balances.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Clive Owen LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Volunteer management

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Phil King BA — Head (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~11.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/07/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID EDWARD PAYLING MA ACAchair
• Andrew Jeffery
• Barbara Tibbetts
• Christopher Huscroft
• Euan West
• Mark Vincent Willings
• Michael Hunter
• Rev Jason McCullagh
• Richard Jonathan Fenn
• Sarah Crozier
• Susan Lee

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

Operates in: City Of Wakefield

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SCHOOL.

• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SCHOOL income £36.3m
• BISHOP CHALLONER SCHOOL income £3.5m
• REIGATE GRAMMAR SCHOOL income £58.6m
• KING'S SCHOOL, ROCHESTER income £13.0m
• THE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £3.1m
• CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS LIMITED income £4.5m

Side by side with its peers

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