HAYFRAN TRUST

Registered charity 298522 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST FRANCIS SCHOOL

The principal activity is to assist with the provision of education for boys and girls in Wiltshire, primarily through St Francis School, Pewsey. St Francis provides a level of benefit to its pupils but also to the general public. It provides an all round independent education with access to its education available to children from less affluent backgrounds, under its community bursary program.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's school operations were sold in November 2024, resulting in a net outgoing resource of £260,685 for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £191,924 and restricted reserves of £30,110, with a stated policy to apply any operating surplus to the development of school facilities rather than holding free funds.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fawcetts LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02164880

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.

• KANE, Christine Anne — director, appointed 01/06/2024on trustee list
• OLIVER, Richard Scott — director, appointed 07/12/2019not on trustee list
• BROMFIELD, Christopher John Bertram — director, appointed 01/01/2017on trustee list
• HUMPHRIES-CUFF, Philip John — director, appointed 27/06/2015on trustee list
• HOOK, Richard William, Dr — director, appointed 29/11/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PHILIP HUMPHRIES-CUFFchair
• Christine Kane · trustee of 3 other charities
• Christopher Bromfield · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Richard William Hook
• RICHARD SCOTT OLIVER OBE · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

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 FRERE EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

• FRERE EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £589k
• TRUSTEES OF THE FRANCISCAN SISTERS -MINORESS income £567k
• SEALE-HAYNE EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £114k
• THE FREWEN EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £4.8m
• THE FITZWYGRAM FOUNDATION income £803k
• THE HALL SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST income £12.7m

Side by side with its peers

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