CRANBROOK SCHOOL TRUST

Registered charity 290237 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CRANBROOK SCHOOL

To promote the education ( including social and physical training) of boys and girls by the conduct and maintenance of a day and boarding school in or near Cranborrk in the County of Kent.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF BOYS AND GIRLS BY THE CONDUCT AND MAINTENANCE OF A DAY OR BOARDING SCHOOL IN OR NEAR CRANBROOK.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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

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Registered contact address: Tunbridge Wells, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£475k

Latest spending

£373k

Registered

1984

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust's fund reserves stand at £19,341,142 after audit adjustments. The trustees are advised to consider the level of reserves maintained and assess going concern for at least 12 months from the approval of the accounts. The auditor intends to issue an unqualified opinion, subject to trustee approval and minor outstanding items.

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

What the accounts disclose

Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor

“The Trustees need to give consideration to the level of reserves maintained and consider going concern for a period being at least 12 months from the approval of the accounts.” — page 66

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Affinia (Orpington). 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.

Complaints policy and procedures
Investment
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Grant-making is its main activity

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

Received assets from another charity (14/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Gordon Youngchair
Andrew Cragg
Francesca Whitelaw
James Peace
Nicolas Dowler
PHILIP THOMPSON
Rev Richard King · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£475k	£373k
31/03/2024	£453k	£373k
31/03/2023	£295k	£223k
31/03/2022	£162k	£310k
31/03/2021	£147k	£83k

Common questions

Is CRANBROOK SCHOOL TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Trust's fund reserves stand at £19,341,142 after audit adjustments. The trustees are advised to consider the level of reserves maintained and assess going concern for at least 12 months from the approval of the accounts. The auditor intends to issue an unqualified opinion, subject to trustee approval and minor outstanding items. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Affinia (Orpington).

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
DRAPERS CHARITABLE FUND	1	£870k
FRANCIS BANCROFT'S TRUST	1	£812k
THE DOOUSS CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£100k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Cranford School.

Cranford School income £12.7m
EASTBROOK EDUCATION TRUST income £2.0m
KESWICK SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST income £44k
BROWNBERRIE EDUCATION TRUST income £1.0m
PINCHBECK'S SCHOOL, BUTTERWICK income £87k
PANGBOURNE COLLEGE LIMITED income £12.6m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CRANBROOK SCHOOL TRUST	£475k	—	0	unclear	—	noted
Cranford School FY2025	£12.7m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
EASTBROOK EDUCATION TRUST FY2025	£2.0m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
KESWICK SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£44k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BROWNBERRIE EDUCATION TRUST FY2025	£1.0m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PINCHBECK'S SCHOOL, BUTTERWICK FY2025	£87k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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