THE KING'S SCHOOL OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY

Registered charity 307942 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE KING'S SCHOOL CANTERBURY

To promote the education in the broadest sense of the word, intellectual, spiritual and personal of persons of both sexes.To carry out and maintain the King's School, Canterbury and the Junior Kings School (including Pre-Prep) together with all the lands, securities, money and property of every description real or personal vested in, or belonging to any Governors on behalf of the Charity.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income before transfers and investment gains of £16k for the year ended 31 August 2025, a significant improvement from the previous year's loss of £1,189k. The Governors confirm that the overall financial position remains strong, with all liabilities and commitments fully matched by available funds and no material uncertainties regarding going concern. The charity is not dependent on irregular income sources, relying primarily on termly tuition and boarding fees.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Alliotts LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (1,084 followers) · instagram (1,691 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 8.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angela Clare Cowburn Baker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Angela Culley
• Canon Andrew Dodd · trustee of 1 other charity
• Count Benoit De Vitry d'Avencourt
• Dr Michael Sutherland
• FRANCES JUDD
• Fionnuala Kennedy
• James Alexander Davies-Warner
• John Mayne
• Lindsay Yates · trustee of 1 other charity
• Reverend Canon Emma Pennington
• Robert Moulsdale
• Sir Nicholas Lyons
• Susan Clare Leadbeater
• THE VENERABLE WILLIAM JONATHAN ADAM · trustee of 9 other charities
• THOMAS SINCLAIR MONTGOMERY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Very Rev'd David Monteith

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE.

• KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE income £8.1m
• HAMPSHIRE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION TRUST income £1.9m
• KING'S SCHOOL, ROCHESTER income £13.0m
• KING'S SCHOOL income £17.8m
• KING'S SCHOOLS TAUNTON LTD income £16.8m
• KINGSMEAD SCHOOL HOYLAKE TRUST LTD income £247k

Side by side with its peers

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