OKS EDUCATIONAL AND BENEVOLENT TRUST

Registered charity 1159522 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal objective of the charity is to pay all or part of the school fees payable in respect of deserving boys or girls, who are in education at the King's School, Canterbury, and, who but for the help of the charity, would be unable to be or remain at the school.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Latest income
£26k
Latest spending
£36k
Registered
2014
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £34,085, which the trustees regard as satisfactory. The charity holds a designated investment fund valued at £615,109, which the notes clarify does not form part of the charity's free reserves. The trustees report that the value of investments and income generated during the year is satisfactory.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: maintaining reserves to allow future investment returns to generate the income required to continue running the trust (held: £34k)
The trustees have a policy of maintaining reserves to allow future investment returns to generate the income required to continue running the trust. — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2025£26k£36k
30/09/2024£31k£34k
30/09/2023£26k£31k
30/09/2022£25k£21k
30/09/2021£18k£24k

Common questions

Is OKS EDUCATIONAL AND BENEVOLENT TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £34,085, which the trustees regard as satisfactory. The charity holds a designated investment fund valued at £615,109, which the notes clarify does not form part of the charity's free reserves. The trustees report that the value of investments and income generated during the year is satisfactory. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.