WELLINGTON SCHOOL 1837

Registered charity 1161447 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WELLINGTON SCHOOL

Secondary and Primary Education.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE THE PROVISION AND CONDUCT, IN OR NEAR WELLINGTON, OF A DAY OR DAY AND BOARDING SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a net deficit of £234,735 for the year ended 31 August 2025, driven by a decline in pupil numbers and increased operating costs. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds decreased by £256,288 to £19,645,914, while the charity maintains significant total net assets of £19,662,879 to support its operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. 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.

• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: WELLINGTON SCHOOL (SOMERSET) TRADING COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 03049392
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09316033

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Alex Battison — Head (source)
• Holly Barker — Academic Deputy Head (source)
• Samantha Dean — Head of Upper School (source)
• Nigel Renyard — Co-curricular Deputy Head (source)
• Victoria Richardson — Head of Prep (source)
• Fiona Taylor — Director of Finance (source)
• Emily Weiss — Director of Human Resources (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.

• MITCHELL, Graham William — director, appointed 21/06/2024on trustee list
• REAH, Christopher James — director, appointed 06/12/2023on trustee list
• GRANT, Helena Mary — director, appointed 06/12/2023on trustee list
• WHEATLEY, Keith Arthur Frank — director, appointed 22/03/2023on trustee list
• HARDING, Russell George — director, appointed 25/06/2021on trustee list
• ROWE, Martin Wyndham — director, appointed 09/12/2020on trustee list
• JAMES, Daniel John Skule — director, appointed 09/12/2020on trustee list
• MERRY, Sarah Elizabeth — director, appointed 07/12/2018on trustee list
• PAGE, Sheena — director, appointed 29/11/2018on trustee list
• PALFREY, Robert John, Mr. — director, appointed 15/03/2016on trustee list
• GOVEY, Anna Maria Kirkman — director, appointed 18/11/2014on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Fiona Amanda Victoria — secretary, appointed 01/08/2020

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

22 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (22 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 (7,231 followers) · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNA MARIA KIRKMAN GOVEY
• Christopher Reah
• Daniel James
• Graham William Mitchell
• Helena Grant
• Keith Arthur Frank Wheatley
• Martin Rowe
• ROBERT PALFREY
• Russell George Harding · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Elizabeth Merry
• Sheena Page

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 WARMINSTER SCHOOL.

• WARMINSTER SCHOOL income £11.2m
• WELLINGBOROUGH SCHOOL income £22.9m
• DOWNSIDE SCHOOL income £9.6m
• THISTLEDOWN EDUCATION TRUST income £2.1m
• WILMSLOW PREPARATORY SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £1.2m
• WILLOW TREE PRESCHOOL income £304k

Side by side with its peers

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