THE CHURCH SCHOOLS OF CAMBRIDGE (THE OLD SCHOOLS)

Registered charity 311326 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OLD SCHOOLS OF CAMBRIDGE

The objects of the Trust are to use Trust funds to:i)develop, insure, maintain and repair the school property of 4 city schools,ii)to provide grants to promote the education of persons under the age of 25 within the City of Cambridgeiii)to promote education, within the City of Cambridge, according to the principles and doctrines of the Church of England by means including Sunday Schools.

Causes: Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased significantly to £377,654 from £1,024,678 in the prior year, largely due to a one-off capital grant received in 2024. Per the trustees' report, free/unrestricted reserves stood at £2,316,163, and the trustees believe resources are adequate to meet current commitments and potential liabilities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Prentis & Co LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Isobel Rawlinson — Director (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).

• Great St Mary’s (GSM) — “we are part-funding a Science and Faith Engagement Officer at GSM who is working with congregations, schools and student communities to dev…” (source page)
• Acorn Project — “We are funding the costs of a practitioner for one day a week to develop an intervention drop-in model to focus on tackling inequalities.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~26.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (66% 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/02/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PATRICIA PRITCHARDchair
• ANDREW IAN MACLELLAN
• Caroline Mary Peet
• DR KEITH CARNE · trustee of 2 other charities
• GILL AMBROSE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jonathan Young
• Rev Andrew Day · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Imogen Nay · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Lucinda Catherine Howard
• Rev Ruth Barry · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Michael Jarvis

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 PETERBOROUGH SCHOOL LIMITED.

• THE PETERBOROUGH SCHOOL LIMITED income £8.2m
• KING'S CHURCH CAMBRIDGE income £162k
• THE CAMBRIAN EDUCATION TRUST income £4.3m
• LONDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LTD income £1.6m
• CITY CHURCH ( CAMBRIDGE ) income £657k
• MOUNTSORREL EDUCATIONAL FUND income £152k

Side by side with its peers

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