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.

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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.

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 ALDRIDGE COOPER AND JORDAN'S ENDOWED SCHOOL FOUNDATION.

• ALDRIDGE COOPER AND JORDAN'S ENDOWED SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £176k
• MERCHANT TAYLORS' EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £336k
• CAMDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION OF FRANCES MARY BUSS income £873k
• AYSCOUGHFEE HALL SCHOOL LIMITED income £1.1m
• COOPERS CHARITY CIO income £246k
• THE FULHAM BOYS SCHOOL FOUNDATION CIO income £851k

Side by side with its peers

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