THE GIRLS' DAY SCHOOL TRUST

Registered charity 306983 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GDST, THE GIRLS PUBLIC DAY SCHOOL TRUST, THE GIRLS' DAY SCHOOL TRUST (1872), THE GIRLS' PUBLIC DAY SCHOOL TRUST (1872)

To remain at the forefront of education, extend excellence and innovation in dynamic educationalsettings and maintain our leadership in the education of young people, principally women.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the GDST reported a strong financial position with total income of £373.4m and net assets of £599.9m for the year ended 31 August 2025. The Trustees confirmed that the organization has adequate resources to continue as a going concern, supported by unrestricted liquid resources and a secured £50m debt facility. Despite sector-wide legislative challenges, the Trust maintained an operating surplus and reduced its defined benefit pension scheme deficit.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Grant Thornton UK LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00006400
• Trading subsidiary: GDST (ENTERPRISES) LIMITED Companies House 02971891

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Girls' Day School Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Simon Haywood — Chief Financial Officer (source)
• Cathryn Buckle — Chief Transformation Officer (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.

• FLETCHER, Sarah Kate — director, appointed 21/01/2026on trustee list
• KARPUKHINA, Seda Yalcinkaya — director, appointed 07/05/2025on trustee list
• WHITELOCK, Emily Aniela — director, appointed 07/05/2025on trustee list
• NWOKORIE, Orighomisan Marie — director, appointed 04/10/2024on trustee list
• KING, Jeremy Bennett Biddle — director, appointed 02/02/2024on trustee list
• SMITH, Katherine Lucy — director, appointed 02/02/2024on trustee list
• PLUMMER, Poppy Teresa Scott — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
• CATTORINI, Giselle Vidic — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
• AITCHISON, Carolyn Jane — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
• EWING, Hilary Ann — director, appointed 02/10/2019on trustee list
• ROSS, Stuart — director, appointed 20/03/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

107 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (94 freehold); recorded price paid £9.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (3,561 likes) · instagram (0 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/10/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/06/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carolyn Jane Aitchison
• Dr Hilary Ann Ewing · trustee of 4 other charities
• Emily Aniela Whitelock
• Giselle Vidic Cattorini
• Jeremy Bennett Biddle King · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katherine Lucy Smith
• Orighomisan Marie Nwokorie
• Poppy Scott Plummer
• Sarah Kate Fletcher · trustee of 2 other charities
• Seda Yalcinkaya Karpukhina
• Stuart Ross

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

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Government & lottery funding

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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 GIRLS' EDUCATION COMPANY LTD.

• GIRLS' EDUCATION COMPANY LTD income £36.2m
• THE NEW GIRLS SCHOOL income £1.9m
• GLENDOWER SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £8.1m
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• QUEEN'S GATE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £12.4m
• THE KING EDWARD VI HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS BIRMINGHAM TRUST income £333k

Side by side with its peers

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