Royal Grammar School Guildford

Registered charity 1177353 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RGS AND LANESBOROUGH

The objects are: 'The provision and conduct in or near Guildford of schools for boys which shall be day schools or, if the Governors think fit, day and boarding schools, and ancillary thereto, the advancement of education.'

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the School generated a net income of £0.6m for the year ended 31 July 2025, a significant decrease from the prior year due to non-recurring items in 2023/24. Free reserves stood at £3.8m, which is below the Trustees' stated policy target of £6.5m (equivalent to three months' operating expenditure), though the Trustees have a plan to rebuild reserves over the following 3–4 years.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Jon Cox — Headmaster (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)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold); recorded price paid £1.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Astrid Jenn-McAuliffe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Calvin Wright Ngwena
• Canon Simon Butler · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dr Lorraine Susan Kendrick Linton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Faye Emily Carter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karen Tania Atkinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kristina Spasic · trustee of 1 other charity
• LORD RUPERT CHARLES WILLIAM BULLARD ONSLOW · trustee of 1 other charity
• NICHOLAS EDWARD JOHN VINEALL QC · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicola Katrin Vale Nelson-Smith
• Peta-Anne Barrow · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Helen Treharne
• Professor Matthew James Humphreys
• Robert Nicholas Waterhouse · trustee of 1 other charity
• SARAH KATHLEEN CREEDY MA · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIMON GEORGE STANFORD GIMSON
• STEPHEN MEREDITH
• Thomas Edward Lingard · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Surrey · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with 1509 GROUP.

• 1509 GROUP income £30.7m
• REIGATE GRAMMAR SCHOOL income £58.6m
• KING EDWARD THE SIXTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, NORWICH income £26.7m
• THE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £3.1m
• BANCROFT'S SCHOOL income £26.3m
• KINGSTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL income £24.5m

Side by side with its peers

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