LUDGROVE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 309100 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of education at Ludgrove, a boarding school for boys aged between eight and thirteen years of age.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group held unrestricted reserves of £18,861,002, with the majority represented by fixed assets. The trustees and auditors confirm that the School has adequate resources to continue its activities for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainty over financial viability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by S&W Audit. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £120,001 - £130,000 (FY2024) to £130,001 - £140,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Simon Barber — Headmaster (source)
• Jon Pinchin-Hughes — Deputy Head (source)
• Tom Wilson — Deputy Head (source)
• Maura Brittain — Bursar (source)
• Vanessa Morphet — Chair of Governors (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)

13 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (11 freehold); recorded price paid £440k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~34.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew John Hinchliff
• Charles Edward Rodney Scott-Malden
• D'Arcy Donna Vigors
• James Dominic Peers Carter
• Logie Charles Lloyd Fitzwilliams
• Ruth Michelle den Besten
• Vanessa Jane Morphet

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

Operates in: Wokingham

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 THE LUDGROVE SCHOOL FOUNDATION.

• THE LUDGROVE SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £1.6m
• SHREWSBURY SCHOOL income £39.3m
• EDGE GROVE SCHOOL TRUST LTD income £7.6m
• ST EDMUND'S SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £17.3m
• Forest School, London income £39.0m
• REIGATE GRAMMAR SCHOOL income £58.6m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.