THE KEEPERS AND GOVERNORS OF THE POSSESSIONS, REVENUES AND GOODS OF THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF JOHN LYON, WITHIN THE TOWN OF HARROW-ON-THE-HILL

Registered charity 310033 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HARROW SCHOOL, THE JOHN LYON SCHOOL, THE KEEPERS AND GOVERNORS OF THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF JOHN LYON, THE KEEPERS AND GOVERNORS OF THE POSSESSIONS, REVENUES AND GOODS OF THE FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF JOHN LYON, WITHIN THE TOWN OF HARROW-ON-THE-HILL IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX

Provide education of all-round excellence which develops to the full each pupil's potential and life long interests to the benefit of the wider community.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group's total income for the year was £90,785,000, with total expenditure of £85,402,000, resulting in a net movement in funds of £16,162,000. Per the trustees' report, consolidated reserves totalled £230,317,000 at the year end, comprising £175,005,000 in unrestricted funds, £5,574,000 in restricted funds, and £49,738,000 in endowment funds. The trustees confirmed that the Corporation is in a robust financial position and has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least 12 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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alastair Land — Head Master (source)
• Dr Stephen Harrison — Senior Deputy Head (source)
• Rupert Try — Deputy Head Academic (source)
• Simon Taylor — Deputy Head Pastoral (source)
• Dr Eric Sie — Director of Admissions (source)
• Douglas Collins — Senior Director of Harrow School Development (source)
• Tim Dalton — Director of Shaftesbury Enterprise (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)

18 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (16 freehold); recorded price paid £6.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram (11K followers)

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 (73% 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: 2.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/05/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Geoffrey Philip Eyton CBE FREngchair
• Andrew Butler KC
• Anna Paola Porcella da Silveira Pinheiro
• Caroline Elizabeth Artis · trustee of 4 other charities
• Charles Hubert Gallagher
• Dr David Alexander Taylor
• Dr David James Payne
• Dr Shenila Vivek Rawal BSc MSc · trustee of 1 other charity
• General Sir Charles Roland Vincent Walker
• Heyrick John Rufus Bond Gunning
• James Christopher Seppala · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Philip John Glover BA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Judith Rowena Murray BA Oxon KC · trustee of 1 other charity
• LIAM JAMES HALLIGAN
• MARK CLOUSTON WALLACE
• Melvin Leon Mrowiec MA
• Miss Susan Hammond
• Mr Karim Malcolm Wilkins
• Neil James Enright
• Peter Adrian Ferrari
• Professor Daniel Gordon Altshuler
• Sally Kathleen McNair Scott
• Sir Jonathan Richard Symonds · trustee of 2 other charities
• Stephanie Margaret Palmer
• Timothy Montfort Boucher

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

Operates in: Harrow

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HARROW DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• THE HARROW DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £7.1m
• Highworth Grammar School Trust, School Fund income £565k
• WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIMITED income £11.6m
• THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES income £1.8m
• HIGHCLARE SCHOOL income £8.0m
• 1509 GROUP income £30.7m

Side by side with its peers

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