STOVER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 306712 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STOVER SCHOOL

The Charity is involved in the advancement of education by the provision and maintenance of a school to provide a high quality education in accordance with the principles of the Church of England as by law established, enabling pupils to acquire the qualifications, confidence and skills needed to lead rewarding and successful lives as good citizens.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity delivered a healthy financial surplus of £329,059 for the year ended 31 July 2025, an improvement on the previous year. The trustees report that unrestricted free reserves stood at £2,345,756, supported by net cash reserves of over £2m, indicating strong liquidity and resilience against future challenges. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Francis Clark. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mrs Caroline Ward — Executive Head (source)
• Dr Jeremy Stone — Deputy Head Teacher (source)
• Mr Ben Noble — Head of Preparatory School & Designated Safeguarding Lead (source)
• Mr Patrick Jenkins — Bursar (source)
• Mrs Sarah-Jane Avery — Assistant Head Pastoral, Teacher of English & Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (source)
• Mr Mick Mooney — Assistant Head Operations (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)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). 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 ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir BENJAMIN JOHN KEYchair
• Christopher Lewis Hicks
• David Ralph Ronald ALDER
• Dr Edward Jonathan Wolstenholme BSC PhD
• JACQUELINE MILSTEAD
• JAMES O'DWYER · trustee of 3 other charities
• Libby Mayo
• Mike Burgess
• STEWART KILLICK
• Stephen John Reynolds · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• STOWE SCHOOL LIMITED income £53.6m
• ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL (HAMPSTEAD) LIMITED income £5.5m
• LONDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LTD income £1.6m
• THE PETERBOROUGH SCHOOL LIMITED income £8.2m
• THE ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL TRUST income £2.2m
• ST JOHN'S SCHOOL income £5.8m

Side by side with its peers

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