CANFORD SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 306315 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance the education of boys and girls including but not limited to the provision of a senior school in or near Canford, Dorset and/or if thought desirable, in other parts of England or Wales, in accordance with the principles of the Church of England.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £11.0M exceed the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £6M, which is designed to cover the longest period in the academic year with no fee income. The charity reported a net income of £2.5M and holds total funds of £61.4M, supported by significant fixed assets and investment portfolios.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00190956
• Trading subsidiary: CHENEFORD LIMITED Companies House 02694274

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chris Wheeler — Headmaster (source)
• Ieuan Weir — Deputy Head Academic (source)
• Richard Redwood — Assistant Head (source)
• Tony Diprose — Director of Sport and Physical Wellbeing (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.

• VAN WENSVEEN, Alex Peter — director, appointed 12/02/2026not on trustee list
• STADDON, Sharon Rosemary — director, appointed 03/02/2026on trustee list
• BROOKS, Neil Richard — director, appointed 05/01/2026on trustee list
• HATTERSLEY, Emma Jane Frances — director, appointed 31/01/2025on trustee list
• HOWARTH, Philippa Evie Craggs — director, appointed 04/06/2024on trustee list
• CHETWOOD, Nicholas Paul — director, appointed 23/02/2024on trustee list
• MCSHEEHY, William Edward Patrick — director, appointed 12/02/2024on trustee list
• MCLAREN-CLARK, William — director, appointed 09/05/2022on trustee list
• PORTLOCK, Jane Caroline, Professor — director, appointed 09/05/2022on trustee list
• FRENCH, Mark Christopher, Professor — director, appointed 05/08/2019on trustee list
• COWARD, Gary Robert, Sir — director, appointed 17/07/2019on trustee list
• SIMMONS, John Harold, Reverend — director, appointed 08/09/2017on trustee list
• HOLLOWAY, Nicholas Henniker — director, appointed 08/09/2017on trustee list
• JEFFRIES, Michael Makepeace Eugene — director, appointed 19/03/2014on trustee list
• THOMAS, Annabel Laura Rose — director, appointed 06/06/2011not on trustee list
• BUTTERWORTH, Andrew John — secretary, appointed 27/09/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (10 freehold); recorded price paid £350k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 5.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SIR GARY ROBERT COWARDchair
• Alex Van Wensveen
• Douglas Robert Robertson
• Dr Rebecca Ann Emerson
• Dr Richard Navaratnum Balasubramaniam
• EMMA JANE FRANCES HATTERSLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lynette Claire Eastman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Paul Chetwood
• Prof Jane Caroline Portlock
• Rev JOHN HAROLD SIMMONS · trustee of 4 other charities
• Suzanne Frances Chalmers
• William Edward Patrick McSheehy
• William McLaren-Clark

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

Operates in: Dorset · Poole

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAULS, CANFORD HEATH IN THE DIOCESE OF SALISBURY.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAULS, CANFORD HEATH IN THE DIOCESE OF SALISBURY income £110k
• BANCROFT'S SCHOOL income £26.3m
• Cranford School income £12.7m
• THE SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £506k
• CAMDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION OF FRANCES MARY BUSS income £873k
• THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

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