SANDS SCHOOL

Registered charity 299714 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promote and provide for the advancement of education through the governance of Sands School in the County of Devon

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN CONNECTION THEREWITH TO CONDUCT, CARRY ON, ACQUIRE AND DEVELOP IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ANY BOARDING OR DAY SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN OF EITHER SEX OR BOTH SEXES.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is a transmittal letter enclosing the revised accounts for the year ended 31 July 2025. It does not contain financial data, reserves figures, or narrative commentary on the charity's financial health.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02274600 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• BROWETT, Trudi Joanna — director, appointed 09/02/2023on trustee list
• MACKENZIE, Diarmid Hugh — director, appointed 09/02/2023on trustee list
• DANIELS, Esther May — director, appointed 14/04/2022on trustee list
• GALLAMOY, Pamela — secretary, appointed 01/10/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). 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 ~5.3 months of spending — above 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

• Esther Daniels
• Trudi Browett
• diarmid mackenzie mr

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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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 CRANLEIGH FOUNDATION.

• CRANLEIGH FOUNDATION income £469k
• CRANLEIGH SCHOOL income £38.0m
• SHERBORNE SCHOOLS GROUP income £84.0m
• WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL INDEPENDENCE APPEALS FUND income £390k
• DARTFORD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE VOLUNTARY SCHOOL FUND income £128k
• KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL income £55.3m

Side by side with its peers

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