SEVENOAKS SCHOOL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 307923 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide facilities for the education of children at Sevenoaks School by raising funds to support new building projects and the widening of access by the award of bursaries.

Objects

To advance education including by, but not limited to, the provision of a day and boarding school or schools in or near Sevenoaks including ancillary or incidental educational activities and other associated activities for the benefit of the community.

Area of benefit: SEVENOAKS AND THE IMMEDIATELY SURROUNDING AREA.

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: Sevenoaks, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds totalled £38,809,788, but free reserves were negative at (£665,509) because fixed assets were deducted. However, the charity held an immediately available cash balance of £6,937,858, which exceeded the trustees' stated policy target. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's financial viability.

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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sevenoaks School Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brian Zhong Hwey Ong
• Bukunola Alakija
• DERICK ROYAARDS WALKER MA
• Dr Nikki May Wing Lee
• Jin Yu Cheong
• Kenneth Cheung
• Marco Alvera
• Pratap Baburao Shirke
• TIMOTHY JOHN CHILD
• Tat-Seng Chiam

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 Sevenoaks Primary School Parent Teacher Association.

• Sevenoaks Primary School Parent Teacher Association income £42k
• ACF SEVENOAKS income £399k
• SEVENOAKS TOWN FC LIMITED income £460k
• THE RICKMANSWORTH SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £38k
• SEATON HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £2.3m
• THE SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £506k

Side by side with its peers

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