KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL

Registered charity 310024 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity supervises three schools which are independent day schools for pupils who are educated up to the age of university entrance. The Schools seek to provide academic education of high quality, extended by a broad range of cultural and sporting opportunities and supported by a responsive pastoral system and firm moral framework.

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Latest income

£55.3m

Latest spending

£47.0m

Registered

1963

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the governing body has presented audited financial statements for the year ended 31 July 2025. The document confirms compliance with statutory requirements and the Statement of Recommended Practice for charities. No specific financial health metrics or risks are detailed in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Trading subsidiary: K.C.S Enterprises Limited, King's College School Wimbledon (International) Limited

“The Corporation has two wholly owned trading subsidiary companies; K.C.S Enterprises Limited, which is responsible for managing the sports club, school shop and the commercial letting activities of school facilities, and King's College School Wimbledon (International) Limited, which is responsible for managing the school's commercial overseas educational activities.” — page 7

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited. Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

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

Total income

£55.3m

Total spending

£47.0m

Cost of raising funds

£3.5m

Reserves (reported)

£0

Employees

549

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 (82% 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: 6.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Lord Paul Clive Deighton KBEchair
Christopher Hale MA LLM · trustee of 1 other charity
Dr Sreena Gawley
Duncan George Ingram · trustee of 3 other charities
JULIE LINDA ROBINSON BA M.Ed
Jean-Andre Prager BA
Jo Larizadeh BA
Joyce Grace Sarpong
MR Ian Macmillan
Matthew Chakalamannil Abraham
Nicholas Bouch
Professor Graham Lord
Robert Parker MA
Sally Hobbs BA PGCE
Toni Oki BA
Tony Stockil BA MBA

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/07/2025	£55.3m	£47.0m
31/07/2024	£50.9m	£43.5m
31/07/2023	£43.5m	£37.9m
31/07/2022	£42.8m	£35.5m
31/07/2021	£37.7m	£33.3m

Common questions

Is KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the governing body has presented audited financial statements for the year ended 31 July 2025. The document confirms compliance with statutory requirements and the Statement of Recommended Practice for charities. No specific financial health metrics or risks are detailed in the provided text. Its FY2025 accounts were audited.

Who funds KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL as a grant recipient include KUSUMA TRUST UK, THE HABERDASHERS' FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
KUSUMA TRUST UK	FY2025	£61k	King's Business School
KUSUMA TRUST UK	FY2024	£61k	King's Business School
THE HABERDASHERS' FOUNDATION	FY2023	£55k	2023 Northcott allocation
THE HABERDASHERS' FOUNDATION	FY2022	£4k	2022 Northcott allocation

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE BRENLEY TRUST	1	£77k
CHELTENHAM COLLEGE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£54k
THE EDWARD & CATHERINE WRAY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£40k
VISCOUNT AMORY'S CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£24k
GREAT LAKES OUTREACH	1	£13k
SYLVANUS LYSONS CHARITY	1	£3k
THE OUSELEY CHURCH MUSIC TRUST	1	£2k
YORKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KINGDOM EDUCATION LIMITED.

KINGDOM EDUCATION LIMITED income £1.7m
KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE income £8.1m
THE KING'S SCHOOL, GLOUCESTER income £13.9m
CHELTENHAM COLLEGE AND CHELTENHAM COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL income £41.7m
ST PETER'S COLLEGE (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS WESTMINSTER SCHOOL) income £46.1m
Headington School Oxford Limited income £28.8m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL	£55.3m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
KINGDOM EDUCATION LIMITED FY2025	£1.7m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE FY2025	£8.1m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE KING'S SCHOOL, GLOUCESTER FY2025	£13.9m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CHELTENHAM COLLEGE AND CHELTENHAM COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL FY2025	£41.7m	£190,001 - £200,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ST PETER'S COLLEGE (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS WESTMINSTER SCHOOL) FY2025	£46.1m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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