SUMMER FIELDS' SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 309683 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SUMMER FIELDS SCHOOL

Summer Fields is an independent preparatory and pre-preparatory school for boys between the ages of 4 and 13, the great majority of whom board. The Governors believe that the boarding prep. school education which the school provides is the best academic, sporting and pastoral preparation for a boy intending to go on to an independent boarding school at age 13.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported negative free reserves of £1.5m, a position attributed to significant investment in fixed assets. Despite this, total funds increased to £18.9m, and the trustees confirmed that financial resources are sufficient to continue operations as a going concern for at least twelve months.

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

• David Faber — Headmaster (source)
• Jeremy Rooth — Chairman (source)
• John Floyd — Headmaster (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Maclaren Foundation — “We do this by offering financial assistance with fees, known as a ‘bursary’ through our sister charity, the Maclaren Foundation.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold); recorded price paid £1.7m. 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)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JEREMY RICHARD MICHAEL ROOTH BSc, MBAchair
• ALISTAIR JOHN CHIRNSIDE
• Andrew Charnes Serazin · trustee of 2 other charities
• Charles Paterson MA, MEd
• Dr John Sfakianakis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hannah Ruth Fox
• Leona Madeleine Rachel Powell
• MR ALEX SNOW
• PHILIP HUGH WEAVER
• Pamela Mundy · trustee of 2 other charities
• ROGER SHAW MA
• Richard James Shepherd-Cross

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Andrew Charnes Serazin — trustee here and at THE MACLAREN FOUNDATION

Known funders

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

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 HALLFIELD SCHOOL TRUST.

• HALLFIELD SCHOOL TRUST income £7.8m
• THE PRIOR'S FIELD SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £7.7m
• ST EDMUND'S SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £17.3m
• GOSFIELD SCHOOL LIMITED income £6.0m
• HEATHFIELD SCHOOL income £0
• The Gregg Schools Trust income £6.4m

Side by side with its peers

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