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SHIPLAKE COURT LIMITED

Registered charity 309651 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHIPLAKE COLLEGE

The charity provides a general education for boys and girls

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£16.2m
Latest spending
£14.8m
Registered
1965
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Governors are responsible for preparing financial statements that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs and resources. The document confirms that the Governors have taken steps to ensure the auditor is aware of all relevant audit information. An independent audit was conducted by Crowe U.K. LLP, whose report was dated 11 December 2025.

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.

Corporate structure

SHIPLAKE COURT ENTERPRISES LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
  • Turnover: £42.4m
  • Profit before tax: £20.9m
  • Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £24.0m
  • Note 5 lists 'Amounts owed to group undertakings' as a creditor line item, but specific balances are not disclosed due to FRS 102 exemptions for wholly-owned subsidiaries included in parent consolidated accounts.
“No provision for corporation tax has been made on the company’s profit for the year due to Its policy of donating all its tax adjusted profits available for distribution under gift aid to its ultimate charitable parent undertaking within nine months of the year-end date...”

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold); recorded price paid £2.3m. 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)

Total income
£16.2m
Total spending
£14.8m
Cost of raising funds
£75k
Reserves (reported)
£4.5m
Employees
195

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Oxfordshire · Reading · Slough · Throughout London · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£16.2m£14.8m
31/08/2024£16.5m£14.0m
31/08/2023£15.5m£12.9m
31/08/2022£13.7m£11.9m
31/08/2021£11.8m£10.8m

Common questions

Is SHIPLAKE COURT LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Governors are responsible for preparing financial statements that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs and resources. The document confirms that the Governors have taken steps to ensure the auditor is aware of all relevant audit information. An independent audit was conducted by Crowe U.K. LLP, whose report was dated 11 December 2025. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
JOHN LYON'S CHARITY1£39k
THE BATCHWORTH TRUST1£20k
THE COLYER-FERGUSSON CHARITABLE TRUST1£5k
THE LAWSON TRUST CIO1£4k

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Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
SHIPLAKE COURT LIMITED£16.2m—0unclear—no doubt
KNOWLEDGE EMPOWERS YOU CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£217k—0unclear—no doubt
ST HILDA'S COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FY2025£16.0m—0unclear—no doubt
SOUTH HILL CENTRE FY2024£567k——unclear—no doubt
ORLEY FARM SCHOOL TRUST FY2025£9.6m—0unclear—no doubt
THE MONTAL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£932k——unclear—no doubt

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