THE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1158943 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ISA

THE OBJECT OF THE ASSOCIATION IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY FOSTERING THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE EDUCATIONAL STANDARDS IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF FELLOWSHIP AND CO-OPERATION AMONG MEMBERS, ASSOCIATES AND AFFILIATES OF THE ASSOCIATION AND THROUGH CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER BODIES WITH SIMILAR CHARITABLE OBJECTS.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity delivered a small planned deficit of £4,875 for the year, with total income rising to £1,869,753 and expenditure to £1,874,628. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds held at year-end were £1,713,345, which the trustees consider more than sufficient for the stated purpose of covering unplanned closures and operating losses.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lord Lexden — President (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)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 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 ~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 (92% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Susan Isabel Knoxchair
• Amanda Susan Campbell
• Daniel Gillespie
• Daniel Joseph Machin
• David Edward Brown
• David Stephen Preston
• Dominic Price
• Geraldine Alice Maidment
• Huseyin Fatih Adak
• Ian Michael Smith
• Ian Sterling
• Jeremy Martin Duke
• Jonathan Charles Hetherington · trustee of 2 other charities
• Karen Gracie-Langrick
• Kevin John Samson
• Lawrence Grenville Collins
• Malcolm Alexander Johnson
• Maria Honoria Coulter
• Matthew Burke
• Mr Jeff Shaw · trustee of 1 other charity
• Natasha Louise Dangerfield
• PAULINE MARIE WILSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Ingram Clarke
• STUART NICHOLSON
• Samantha Marie Scott
• Stefan Anderson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Victoria Playford

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

Operates in: China · Egypt · Ireland · Ivory Coast · Morocco · Nepal · Russia · Throughout England And Wales · United Arab Emirates · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE INDEPENDENT EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION LIMITED.

• THE INDEPENDENT EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £17.6m
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND NON-MAINTAINED SPECIAL SCHOOLS income £465k
• THE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS' BURSARS ASSOCIATION income £3.9m
• THE INDEPENDENT JEWISH DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £977k
• Association of Higher Education Professionals income £761k
• AL-ISLAH SCHOOLS TRUST income £283k

Side by side with its peers

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