THE WELLINGTON COLLEGE

Registered charity 309093 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q114306 · Wikipedia · also known as WELLINGTON COLLEGE

The Charity aims to provide a world-class education that will enable its pupils to realise their full potential in academic, sporting, artistic and social skills and to engender in them a spirit of self-confidence, a desire to serve the wider community, an international outlook and an enthusiastic attitude to work and life.

Objects

THE OBJECT FOR WHICH THE COLLEGE IS ESTABLISHED AND INCORPORATED (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE “OBJECT”) IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION (WHETHER NATIONALLY OR INTERNATIONALLY) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:THE THE PROVISION OF THE COLLEGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FOUNDATIONERS AND OTHERS AND, IN SO PROVIDING, PREFERENCE SHALL BE GIVEN TO THEFOUNDATIONERS; AND SUPPORTING, PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF OTHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS OR INITIATIVES; AND/OR SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE GOVERNORS SHALL, IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION, DETERMINE.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the financial statements give a true and fair view of the group's and parent charity's affairs. The independent auditor concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operations.

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 3 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Wellington College (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• James Dahl — Master of Wellington College (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)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 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 (11,316 likes) · instagram (20K followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (80% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Elise Bentleychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Halls OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Elizabeth Ferry
• Elizabeth Adekunle · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Cecilia Goldsmith
• Helen Claire Stevenson MSc
• James Richard Garvey
• Jill Miranda May BA
• Mark Gordon Milliken-Smith KC
• Sir Christopher Linley Tickell
• The Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellelsley KG, LVO, OBE, MC, DL
• VIRGINIA ELIZABETH RHODES BA

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WILLINGTON SCHOOL FOUNDATION LIMITED.

• WILLINGTON SCHOOL FOUNDATION LIMITED income £3.9m
• INSTITUTE OF SCHOOL BUSINESS LEADERSHIP income £1.8m
• WELLINGBOROUGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £132k
• CHELTENHAM COLLEGE CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.5m
• KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL income £55.3m
• WYCLIFFE COLLEGE FOUNDATION income £37k

Side by side with its peers

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