RYDE SCHOOL

Registered charity 307409 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RYDE SCHOOL LIMITED

The provision of education to girls and boys aged 2 through to eighteen

Objects

TO CARRY ON AT RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT OR AT ANY OTHER PLACE OR PLACES WHICH MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, A SCHOOL FOR THE EDUCATION OF BOYS AND GIRLS

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.

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Registered contact address: Isle of Wight, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit before gains on investments of £342k for the year ended 31 August 2025, contrasting with a surplus in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stand at £21.4m, with free reserves (adjusted for fixed assets and loans) at £3.5m, which the Governors consider sufficient to meet working capital requirements and manage principal risks.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Inspection and regulatory ratings

Matched to this charity by name; verify provider identity on the regulator’s site.

• Ofsted — The Ryde School: School remains Good (NULL) · Ofsted

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Will Turner — Head Master (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)

18 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (15 freehold); recorded price paid £3.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~20.0 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 (95% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alex Tate MA Oxon
• Bimal Sualy
• Catherine Dixon
• Chantal-Aimee Doerries KC
• Dr MICHELLE LEGG
• Fiona Hnatow
• Giles Robert Sheridan Whitefield
• Hamish Nicklin
• Ian McIsaac
• Sam William Branston
• Simon Huw Llewelyn Williams
• Stephen Ross

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

Operates in: Isle Of Wight

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GATEWAYS EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED.

• GATEWAYS EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £8.7m
• MEDESHAMSTEDE EDUCATION TRUST income £1.7m
• LEICESTERSHIRE INDEPENDENT EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £7.2m
• NEWBRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED income £1.5m
• DERBY HIGH SCHOOL TRUST income £10.2m
• OUR LADY OF SION SCHOOL, WORTHING income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

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