KING EDWARD THE SIXTH GRAMMAR SCHOOL, NORWICH

Registered charity 311280 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORWICH SCHOOL

Norwich School's objects are to provide and conduct in Norwich or elsewhere a day or day-and-boarding school for boys and girls.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £26,693,000 against expenditure of £26,081,000, resulting in a net increase in funds of £561,000. The trustees report free reserves of £441,000 and note that the school is forecasting an unrestricted year-end deficit of £476,000 for the current budget cycle, though they maintain that adequate resources exist 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 Larking Gowen LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Steffan Griffiths — School Head (source)
• John Ingham — Head of the Lower School (source)
• Nicky Fairweather — Principal Deputy Head and Designated Safeguarding Lead (source)
• Richard Clark — Deputy Head of Co-Curriculum (source)
• Andrew Rowlandson — Deputy Head (Staff) (source)
• Charlotte Wyndham — Assistant Head and Head of Fourth Form (source)
• Andrew Curtis — Assistant Head and Head of Fifth Form (source)
• Richard Sims — Assistant Head and Head of Sixth Form (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Alderman Norman’s Foundation — “On behalf of the Partnerships Team at Norwich School and the 138 brilliant young people, we extend enormous thanks to the following sponsors…” (source page)
• Norwich Freemen’s Charity — “On behalf of the Partnerships Team at Norwich School and the 138 brilliant young people, we extend enormous thanks to the following sponsors…” (source page)
• R. C. Snelling Charitable Trust — “On behalf of the Partnerships Team at Norwich School and the 138 brilliant young people, we extend enormous thanks to the following sponsors…” (source page)
• Jarrolds — “On behalf of the Partnerships Team at Norwich School and the 138 brilliant young people, we extend enormous thanks to the following sponsors…” (source page)
• The Paul Bassham Charitable Trust — “On behalf of the Partnerships Team at Norwich School and the 138 brilliant young people, we extend enormous thanks to the following sponsors…” (source page)
• The Charles Littlewood Hill Trust — “On behalf of the Partnerships Team at Norwich School and the 138 brilliant young people, we extend enormous thanks to the following sponsors…” (source page)
• Norfolk Cambridge Society — “On behalf of the Partnerships Team at Norwich School and the 138 brilliant young people, we extend enormous thanks to the following sponsors…” (source page)

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 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 (95% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Charles Woodchair
• ANTHONY RICHARD MORRELL LITTLE MA
• Anasua Sarkar Roy · trustee of 2 other charities
• DAVID W TALBOT FCA
• Deirdre Annuncia Willmott
• Hannah Amy Salmon
• James Michael Hunter
• Julian Sandford Wells MRICS
• MICHELLE JARROLD
• Major General Gregory Stephen Smith CB QVRM TD · trustee of 2 other charities
• NIGEL BACK · trustee of 2 other charities
• Narman Puvanachandra
• PAUL HENDERSON
• Rev Aidan Stephen George Platten · trustee of 4 other charities
• Robert George Scott Moncrieff
• TRACY J YATES BA
• Very Reverend Dr Andrew Jonathan Braddock · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Norfolk

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 Royal Grammar School Guildford.

• Royal Grammar School Guildford income £29.7m
• ST EDWARD'S SCHOOL income £41.1m
• NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL (NORWICH) LIMITED income £1.2m
• KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL BATH income £20.0m
• ST PAUL'S SCHOOL income £48.2m
• Highworth Grammar School Trust, School Fund income £565k

Side by side with its peers

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