STOWE SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 310639 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal activity of the company continues to be the provision of education in a boarding and day school for pupils aged 13 to 18.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small net loss of £38,870 for the year, primarily due to the imposition of VAT on school fees and the removal of charitable business rates relief. Despite this, unrestricted reserves remain substantial at £67.1 million, though the surplus on free reserves has decreased to £2.4 million as prepayments normalized.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

45 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (36 freehold); recorded price paid £2.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~16.3 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 (88% 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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SIMON CHARLES CREEDY SMITH BA ACAchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Alexander Douglas Muirhead
• Andrea Karen Johnson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catriona Helen Lloyd
• Chaminda Sunjeewa Jayawardena
• Christopher Wheeler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Louise Cowling Taylor · trustee of 1 other charity
• HHJ Rebecca Jane Brown
• Haydn Cole
• Hugh William Medley Taylor
• JOHN PHILIP CARDAIN FROST · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jena Ntumba
• Joanna Blackstone
• Luke Eric Chauveau
• Mairi Margaret Johnstone
• Patrick Julian Bradshaw
• Rowena Bolton
• Rupert Fordham
• Simon Cuerden
• The Revd Canon Peter Michael Ackroyd · trustee of 1 other charity
• Victor Kelechi Maxwell

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

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.

• MR S C CREEDY SMITH — trustee here and at THE STOWE SCHOOL 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 THE STOWE SCHOOL FOUNDATION.

• THE STOWE SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £3.4m
• STOVER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION income £8.8m
• ST BEES SCHOOL income £190k
• ST OLAVE'S SCHOOL TRUST income £3.4m
• THE GODSTOWE PREPARATORY SCHOOL COMPANY LIMITED income £8.3m
• GRANGE ROSE HILL SCHOOL LIMITED income £3.8m

Side by side with its peers

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