Headington School Oxford Limited

Registered charity 309678 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Headington Rye Oxford Limited

Provision of education for day and boarding pupils. Additionally, the provision of welfare support to pupils' education.

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Latest income
£28.8m
Latest spending
£27.1m
Registered
1966
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is an excerpt from an Independent Auditor's Report and does not contain financial statements, trustee reports, or narrative commentary regarding the charity's financial health. Consequently, no facts regarding reserves, income, expenditure, or going concern status are available in this text.

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.

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (10 freehold); recorded price paid £1.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Total income
£28.8m
Total spending
£27.1m
Cost of raising funds
£823k
Reserves (reported)
£44.8m
Employees
422

Reported reserves equal ~19.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£28.8m£27.1m
31/07/2024£35.0m£25.4m
31/07/2023£24.3m£22.5m
31/07/2022£23.6m£20.7m
31/07/2021£20.1m£18.7m

Common questions

Is Headington School Oxford Limited financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document is an excerpt from an Independent Auditor's Report and does not contain financial statements, trustee reports, or narrative commentary regarding the charity's financial health. Consequently, no facts regarding reserves, income, expenditure, or going concern status are available in this text. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Who funds Headington School Oxford Limited?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Headington School Oxford Limited as a grant recipient include THE EDWARD & CATHERINE WRAY CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE EDWARD & CATHERINE WRAY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£40k

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BERKHAMPSTEAD SCHOOL (CHELTENHAM) TRUST LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
Headington School Oxford Limited£28.8m——unclear—no doubt
BERKHAMPSTEAD SCHOOL (CHELTENHAM) TRUST LIMITED FY2025£5.4m——below—no doubt
CHELTENHAM COLLEGE AND CHELTENHAM COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL FY2025£41.7m£190,001 - £200,000—unclear—no doubt
WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL INDEPENDENCE APPEALS FUND FY2025£390k—0unclear—no doubt
ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL WORCESTER FY2025£26.3m——unclear—no doubt
NORWICH CATHEDRAL CHOIR ENDOWMENT FUND FY2025£253k——unclear—no doubt

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