ST SWITHUN'S SCHOOL (WINCHESTER)

Registered charity 307335 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7595505 · Wikipedia

Provision of education for girls and young children of both sexes in accordance with the principles of the Church of England and the letting of facilities for both charitable and commercial purposes.

Objects

TO PROVIDE SOUND AND THOROUGH EDUCATION FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG CHILDREN OF BOTH SEXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Winchester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus for the year and holds total net assets of £33.8m, including £31.6m in unrestricted funds. The trustees consider the school has adequate resources to continue activities for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties regarding financial viability. Free reserves are reported as being below the trustees' stated policy target of approximately two months of expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Thank the Maker - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 10th Anniversary Event at St Swithun’s School, Winchester jedinews.com · 05/07/2026

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Swithuns School (Winchester) (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jane Gandee — Headmistress (source)
• Liz Norris — Head (Prep) (source)
• Alison McClure — Chair (School Council) (source)
• Graham Yates — Deputy Head (source)
• Charles Hammel — Deputy Head (source)
• Martyn Gamble — Bursar (source)
• Kate Grosscurth — Deputy Head (source)
• Alice Ludlow — Head of Boarding (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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (2,953 followers) · instagram (6,332 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~19.9 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 (90% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexandra Allan
• Alison McGhee
• Dr HEATHER DAWN MYCOCK
• Dr Stephen Bailey
• Jane Dixon
• Joanna Bacon
• Judith Feuchtwanger
• Kuin Lawton Theresa Helena Nancy
• MR RICHARD TYSON
• Nikki De Krester
• Paul Clegg
• Richard Hill
• Richard Ian White · trustee of 1 other charity
• Victor Tsang

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WITHINGTON GIRLS' SCHOOL.

• WITHINGTON GIRLS' SCHOOL income £11.3m
• WILLINGTON SCHOOL FOUNDATION LIMITED income £3.9m
• United Church Schools Trust income £185.2m
• ST PIRAN'S SCHOOL LIMITED income £8.3m
• THE SOUTHDOWN SCHOOL TRUST income £144k
• ST CATHERINE'S BRITISH SCHOOL income £17.2m

Side by side with its peers

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