THE SHERBORNE GIRLS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1164053 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To record and control all fundraising on behalf of Sherborne School for Girls.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, SHERBORNE, DORSET AND OTHERWISE TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE CONNECTED OR OTHERWISE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SCHOOL (THE "OBJECTS").

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

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £6,073 for the year ended 30 June 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior period. The charity holds total net assets of £74,563, comprising £15,226 in unrestricted funds and £59,337 in restricted funds. The trustees and auditor have confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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 3 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2023 (received 15/07/2024, 15 days after the 30/06/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09637231

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.

• HALL, Louise Drummond — director, appointed 21/11/2025not on trustee list
• ALI, Tawhid — director, appointed 22/09/2023on trustee list
• ASHWORTH, Rosamond Elizabeth — director, appointed 22/09/2023not on trustee list
• BAMFORD, Liz — director, appointed 22/09/2023on trustee list
• JAMES, Elisabeth — director, appointed 24/09/2021on trustee list
• SEKHSARIA, Padmini — director, appointed 28/01/2019on trustee list
• SULLIVAN, Ruth Mary, Dr — director, appointed 01/09/2018on trustee list
• MASSEY, Katherine Anne Elizabeth — director, appointed 22/09/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr RUTH MARY SULLIVAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elisabeth James
• Katherine Anne Elizabeth Massey
• Liz Bamford
• Padmini Sekhsaria · trustee of 2 other charities
• Pix Ashworth
• Tawhid Ali · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOUNDATION.

• THE SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £506k
• FRIENDS OF SHERBORNE ABBEY income £143k
• MAIDENBOWER PRE SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £230k
• THE NEW GIRLS SCHOOL income £1.9m
• SPINFIELD SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION income £31k
• SHOREHAM VILLAGE PRE-SCHOOL income £81k

Side by side with its peers

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