ST MARY'S SCHOOL ASCOT

Registered charity 290286 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST MARY'S SCHOOL ASCOT TRUST

St Mary's School Ascot is a Roman Catholic independent boarding school for girls aged 11 to 18.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets increased to £29,969,000 from £28,715,000 in the prior year, driven by a surplus for the year of £1,254,000. The charity holds unrestricted general funds of £29,674,000 against restricted capital appeal funds of £295,000. The balance sheet shows a net current asset position of £10,168,000, indicating adequate resources to meet current liabilities.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01844327
• Trading subsidiary: ST. MARY'S ASCOT TRADING COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 02633707

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Lord Hemphill — Chairman (source)
• Mrs Danuta Staunton — Headmistress (source)
• Ms Clementine Vaughan — Chair (source)
• Mr Giles Brand — Bursar (source)
• Mrs Rhea Bawa — Director of Human Resources (source)
• Mr Krish Gunatunga — Development and Alumnae Director (source)
• Ms Alison Atherton — Director of Admissions (source)
• Mr Christopher Ellott — Director of Communications (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.

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.

• BETHELL, Melissa, Lady — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• NICHOLLS, Simon Robert — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• SETH, Samantha Charlotte — director, appointed 06/12/2024not on trustee list
• VAN MAAREN, Gillian Leigh — director, appointed 01/09/2023not on trustee list
• NEIL, Graham Angus Horton — director, appointed 21/02/2023on trustee list
• WEAVER, James Oliver Robert — director, appointed 26/05/2022on trustee list
• MEADWAY, Susannah Lawton — director, appointed 17/06/2021on trustee list
• CLEMENTI, Alice Margaret — director, appointed 25/05/2021on trustee list
• CASEY, Anne Mary — director, appointed 01/11/2020on trustee list
• BEIRNE, Christopher — director, appointed 05/12/2019on trustee list
• VAUGHAN, Clementine Mary — director, appointed 25/11/2015on trustee list
• BRAND, Giles Kentigern — secretary, appointed 01/09/2007

Official officers record.

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~17.2 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 (91% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lady Melissa Bethellchair
• Alice Margaret Clementi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anne Mary Casey
• Christopher Beirne
• Dr Alison Mary Cameron Taylor
• Edward Richard Graham
• Gillian van Maaren
• Graham Angus Horton Neil
• James Oliver Robert Weaver
• Samantha Charlotte Coutinho
• Simon Nicholls
• Susannah Lawton Meadway

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

Operates in: Windsor And Maidenhead

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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.

Charities like this

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

• HEATHFIELD SCHOOL income £0
• ST MARY'S SCHOOL, HAMPSTEAD income £4.5m
• ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ASCOT TRUST LIMITED income £7.7m
• ST MARY'S SCHOOL CAMBRIDGE income £13.3m
• ST MARY'S SCHOOL (CALNE) income £18.5m
• MOUNT ST MARY'S income £7.6m

Side by side with its peers

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