WELLINGTON SCHOOL 1837

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

Secondary and Primary Education.

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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.

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.

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.

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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 (3.8%) (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

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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 WELLINGTON SCHOOL FOUNDATION.

• THE WELLINGTON SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £320k
• WELLINGBOROUGH SCHOOL income £22.9m
• THE WELLS CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £240k
• ST RONAN'S SCHOOL (HAWKHURST) income £8.0m
• NEWELLS SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £9.0m
• BLUNDELL'S SCHOOL income £19.5m

Side by side with its peers

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