MILLFIELD

Registered charity 310283 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q15253416 · Wikipedia · also known as MILLFIELD SCHOOL LIMITED

The education of children and young people within Millfield School and Millfield Prep School (including Pre-Prep); the development of associated extra-curricular activites; the operation of educational and recreational courses.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED (THE "OBJECTS") ARE TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN AT MILLFIELD IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET A SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS FOR THE EDUCATION OF BOYS AND GIRLSAND YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN AND TO GIVE TO SUCH PUPILS GENERAL OR SPECIALISED INSTRUCTION OF THE HIGHEST CLASS BUT SO THAT EACH SUCH SCHOOL SHALL BE CARRIED ON AS AN EDUCATIONAL CHARITY AND AS AN INDEPENDENT OBJECT TO ESTABLISH OR ACQUIRE AS A GOING CONCERN, AND CARRY ON, SUPPORT OR MANAGE ELSEWHERE, ANY SUBSIDIARY OR AFFILIATED SCHOOLS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £6.4 million and holds free reserves of £9.2 million, alongside £43.3 million in cash at bank. The trustees and auditors confirm that the group is able to meet its liabilities as they fall due and there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2021 (received 11/07/2022, 11 days after the 30/06/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Millfield School (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Gavin Horgan — Millfield Headmaster (source)
• Dan Thornburn — Millfield Prep 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (12,097 likes) · instagram (34K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 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: 6.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROLAND DACRE RUDDchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Behdad Alizadeh
• DR Peter Marston Warner
• Douglas Bazil Anthony Pinto
• Dr Nicola Suzanne Della Valle
• Giles Alexander Hastings
• Helen Clare Donovan
• JOHN RENNIE MAUDSLAY
• Janet Elizabeth Mitchell
• Louise Alison Simpson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Gerald Brotherton
• Nicholas William Maddock
• Oliver Richard Welsby
• ROSIJI OLAKITAN SOLUADE
• Robert Mark Abernethy
• Robin Charles Fletcher
• Ross Westgate
• Samuel Alexander Bradley
• Sara Symington
• TIMOTHY PHILIP GRIFFITHS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MILLFIELD FOUNDATION.

• MILLFIELD FOUNDATION income £244k
• LITLINGTON PRE-SCHOOL income £42k
• RIPLEY PRE-SCHOOL income £91k
• ST GREGORY'S PRE-SCHOOL LTD income £294k
• MILLFIELD PRE-SCHOOL income £145k
• ST MAWGAN PRE-SCHOOL LIMITED income £101k

Side by side with its peers

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