THE KNOWL HILL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 299690 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity runs a day school for Dyslexic Children, registered by DFeS, some children are privately funded, the rest are funded by Local Education Authorities. Age range from 7+ to 16+.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds increased to £1,298,004, reflecting a net incoming resource of £173,366 for the year. The charity maintains a reserves policy aiming to retain sufficient cash to cover at least one term's expenditure, which is comfortably met by the current unrestricted fund balance. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fuller Spurling. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Knowl Hill Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr. Kas Govender — Headteacher (source)
• Mrs Zia Cooke — Deputy Headteacher (source)
• Mrs Jenny Maré — Deputy Headteacher (source)
• Mrs Rebecca Kennedy — Business Leader (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)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £600k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Creighton Cookchair
• Anna Marie Rhodes
• Dr Kasavan Govender
• Evelyn Maureen Spencer
• John Botham
• Nora Angela Leggett
• Russell Keith Law

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OAKHILL EDUCATION TRUST.

• OAKHILL EDUCATION TRUST income £1.8m
• BLOOMFIELD LEARNING CENTRE FOR CHILDREN LIMITED income £226k
• HILL HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £10.7m
• DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE LIMITED income £144k
• THE DYSLEXIA FOUNDATION income £315k
• Helen Arkell Dyslexia Charity income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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