THE SCHOOL OF ST HELEN AND ST KATHARINE TRUST

Registered charity 286892 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST HELEN'S SCHOOL

The principal activity of the Trust is to educate academically able girls aged 9 to 18 years. The Governors' policy is to achieve a social mix.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus on unrestricted funds of £881,477 and total unrestricted funds of £30,163,046. However, the trustees report negative free reserves of £842,683, attributing this to significant recent investment in fixed assets, specifically the £9.2m Benedict Building. The trustees confirm the school has adequate resources to continue as a going concern, supported by a £10m revolving credit facility and an investment portfolio of £1,828,722.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sarah Rollings — Head (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)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 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 ~23.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/04/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sara Elizabeth Benbowchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Anne Jeanette Lynch
• Antonia Jane MacKay
• Bernadette Stubley
• David Fawcus
• Jennifer Mitchell
• Jill Elizabeth Hughes
• Kathryn Lea
• Louise Alison Simpson · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAULINE ELIZABETH CAKEBREAD
• Sharon Elaine Cooper
• Timilehin Afolami
• Zoe Davies

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

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 HALL SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE HALL SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST income £12.7m
• ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL, TWICKENHAM income £7.5m
• ST BENEDICT'S SCHOOL EALING income £27.0m
• THE FRANCIS HOLLAND (CHURCH OF ENGLAND) SCHOOLS TRUST income £36.9m
• CHEAM SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £9.0m
• THE NORTH LONDON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL income £36.6m

Side by side with its peers

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