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.

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE WANT AMONGST OLD SCHOLARS, THEIR WIDOWS AND CHILDREN AND AMONGST FORMER MASTERS AND OTHER STAFF OF THE SCHOOL AND THEIR WIDOWS AND CHILDREN. 2. TO PAY FOR ALL OR ANY PART OF THE FEES PAYABLE IN RESPECT OF NECESSITOUS OLD PUPILS OF ANY AGE WHO SHALL FOR THE TIME BEING BE OR WISH TO BE FURTHER EDUCATED OR TRAINED WHEN THEY HAVE LEFT THE SCHOOL AT BY OR THROUGH ANY REPUTABLE EDUCATIONAL OR TRAINING ESTABLISHMENT WHATSOEVER IN THE UK OR ELSEWHERE. 3. TO MAKE PAYMENTS TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE KING'S SCHOOL OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY ("THE SCHOOL"). 4. TO MAKE PAYMENTS TO THE OKS BURSARSHIP SOCIETY (CHARITY CLOSED IN 2000). 5. TO CARRY OUT SUCH OTHER LEGALLY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AS THE TRUSTEES BEING NOT LESS THAN FIVE IN NUMBER SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME BY DEED EXECUTED WITH THEIR UNANIMOUS CONSENT DECLARE. 6. TO PAY ALL OR PART OF THE SCHOOL FEES PAYABLE IN RESPECT OF DESERVING BOYS AND GIRLS WHO SHALL FOR THE TIME BEING BE OR WISH TO BE EDUCATED AT THE SCHOOL AND WHO BUT FOR THE HELP OF THE CHARITY WOULD BE UNABLE TO BE OR REMAIN AT THE SCHOOL. 7. TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THE EDUCATION OF SCHOOLBOYS AND SCHOOLGIRLS AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO BUILD UP SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

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

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.

• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Annabel Frances Steadman
• Camilla Alice Louise Turner
• Charlotte Friederike Pragnell Fliedner
• India Rosalind Leland White-Spunner · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Harry John Phipson
• James Lyon Henry Bartlett
• Jennifer Sarah Hinves

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

Operates in: Kent

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