THE COOPERS' COMPANY AND COBORN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 310935 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objectives of the Charity are to maintain the premises of the Coopers' Company & Coborn School, including the rebuilding of the School; and to provide scholarships, bursaries and other financial assistance to the pupils and ex-pupils of the School who are under 25 years of age.

Objects

A) THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A SCHOOL TO BE CONDUCTED AS A SCHOOL WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE EDUCATION ACTS (INCLUDING AN ACADEMY). B) PAYMENT OF A YEARLY SUM OF £20 IN AID OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL CONNECTED WITH THE PARISH OF BOW. C) IN AWARDING SCHOLARSHIP, BURSARIES OR OTHER MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE NOT ATTAINED THE AGE OF 25 YEARS.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF HAVERING

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

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Havering, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £10,386,659, which represent a significant portion of its total net assets. The independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operations. The charity reported a net incoming resource increase to £188,957, driven largely by a £770,000 increase in the value of its investment portfolio.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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 policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~221.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (99% 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: 8.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr IAN JAMES MACAULEY FROOD OBE, BSCchair
• Bryan Pickering
• CLARE YVONNE HUGHES · trustee of 1 other charity
• COLIN EDWARD STEEL
• Councillor Christopher Wilkins
• Ian Meadows · trustee of 1 other charity
• KAREN FRANCES PACK
• LINDA JOY VAN DEN HENDE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Leigh Anthony JOHNSON
• PAUL LAVER
• PETER TIMMS FCA
• Rev TREVOR FRANCIS CRITCHLOW · trustee of 7 other charities
• Timothy Clark

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

Operates in: Havering

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 COOPERS CHARITY CIO.

• COOPERS CHARITY CIO income £235k
• CUMNOR OLD SCHOOL CHARITY income £27k
• THE PETERBOROUGH SCHOOL LIMITED income £8.2m
• COLLIS PARENTS SCHOOL FUND income £25k
• CORE & CO FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• THE SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £506k

Side by side with its peers

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