BRIGHTON COLLEGE

Registered charity 307061 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of a first class independent education for children between the ages of 3 to 18. Subject to donations and budgetary limits, scholarship awards are made on the basis of the individual's educational potential and bursary awards are made to enable academically able children to benefit where financial hardship might otherwise preclude.

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group reported a net income of £11.3 million for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total reserves of £162.5 million. Although free reserves were negative at £0.3 million due to significant investment in tangible fixed assets, the trustees confirmed that sufficient cash and banking facilities are available to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Richard Cairns — Principal (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)

19 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (13 freehold); recorded price paid £5.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (8,193 likes) · instagram (18K followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~23.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADAM PETTITT
• Adrian Andrew Underwood
• Alex Wagenberg
• Alison Elizabeth Fleming
• Christina Jane Maude
• Joan Deslandes · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Christopher Andrew Bushell
• Lorraine Gibson
• Lucinda Janet Harris
• Miles Templeman · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROBERT JOHN STUART WEIR FCA, BA
• Richard Thomas Ricci
• Robert James Hannington FRICS FSA
• The Right Hon. Lord Francis Maude of Horsham
• Victoria Byrne

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRIGHTON COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP, BURSARY AND PRIZE ENDOWMENTS.

• BRIGHTON COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP, BURSARY AND PRIZE ENDOWMENTS income £328k
• EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (INCORPORATED) income £28.1m
• THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF KING CHARLES II AT BRADFORD income £17.1m
• ARDINGLY COLLEGE LIMITED income £45.1m
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SCHOOL income £36.3m
• BRIGHTON THEATRE GROUP income £207k

Side by side with its peers

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