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TRURO HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

Registered charity 306577 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide and conduct in or near Truro a Day and Boarding School for girls.

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Latest income
£6.5m
Latest spending
£6.3m
Registered
1963
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £181,006 for the year, with total unrestricted reserves of £3,179,349. The trustees report that the school is forecasting a surplus for the coming financial years and has sufficient resources to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £110,001 - £120,000 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £70k)
“In the band £110,001 - £120,000 1”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Largest income source: Gross school fees (96% of income)
“Gross school fees chargeable 6,829,863”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Fundraising cost ratio: 0.0% of fundraised income, as disclosed
“Donations generated £1,753 at a cost of £Nil.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: six weeks' costs, approximately 10% of turnover (held: £3.2m)
“it considers the target level of free reserves required to be the equivalent of six weeks’ costs, approximately 10% of turnover.” — page 9
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Truro High School Trading Limited
“The School has a wholly owned non-charitable subsidiary, Truro High School Trading Limited” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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

Total income
£6.5m
Total spending
£6.3m
Cost of raising funds
£52k
Reserves (reported)
£3.2m
Employees
106

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£6.5m£6.3m
31/08/2024£6.5m£6.2m
31/08/2023£6.4m£6.1m
31/08/2022£6.0m£5.2m
31/08/2021£5.1m£4.5m

Common questions

Is TRURO HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £181,006 for the year, with total unrestricted reserves of £3,179,349. The trustees report that the school is forecasting a surplus for the coming financial years and has sufficient resources to continue operations. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited.

What does the highest-paid employee of TRURO HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £110,001 - £120,000 band.

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TRURO SCHOOL FOUNDATION LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
TRURO HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS£6.5m£110,001 - £120,000—within0.0%no doubt
TRURO SCHOOL FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2025£371k—0unclear—no doubt
Hope Church Truro FY2024£134k—0unclear—no doubt
THE TRURO DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED FY2024£7.1m——below—no doubt
BEACHBOROUGH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£7.3m——unclear—no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST KEA, TRURO FY2025£326k—0unclear—no doubt

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