DEVONPORT HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS DEVELOPMENT FUND

Registered charity 298442 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE DEVELOPMENT FUND

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUPILS ATTENDING THE SCHOOL BY PROVIDING AND ADAPTING FACILITIES OR EQUIPMENT OR ACCOMMODATION FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES WHICH WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY AT THE PREMISES OF THE SCHOOL. TO SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS OR GROUPS OF STUDENTS IN RELATION TO VISITS AND TRAVEL THAT ENHANCE THEIR EDUCATION.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUPILS ATTENDING THE SCHOOL BY PROVIDING AND ADAPTING FACILITIES OR EQUIPMENT OR ACCOMMODATION FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES WHICH WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY AT THE PREMISES OF THE SCHOOL.

Area of benefit: CITY OF PLYMOUTH

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £146,208 for the year, driven by actuarial gains on its defined benefit pension scheme. Free reserves were held at £100,730, which the trustees note is just above their stated policy target of £80,000, with plans to restore reserves to healthier levels in the coming year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Griffin. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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 handling
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• SHIRLEY WILLIAMS

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

Operates in: Plymouth City

Income and spending

Common questions