CHELTENHAM COLLEGE AND CHELTENHAM COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Registered charity 311720 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHELTENHAM COLLEGE, CHELTENHAM COLLEGE JUNIOR SCHOOL, Cheltenham College

Provision of education to both boys and girls aged 3-18.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £3.5 million and holds total consolidated net assets of £77.9 million. However, the trustees report that the charity does not hold any free reserves, with unrestricted funds effectively in deficit due to significant investment in tangible fixed assets. Despite this structural deficit, the trustees and auditors confirm the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis, citing adequate resources and contingency planning.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chris Townsend — Head of College (source)
• Tom O’Sullivan — Head of Cheltenham Prep (source)
• Mr Phil Attwell — Bursar (source)
• Mr Timothy Brewis — Deputy Head (Academic) (source)
• Mr Steve McQuitty — Deputy Head (Co-curricular) (source)
• Dr Mary Plint — Deputy Head (Learning and Wellbeing) (source)
• Mrs Anna Cutts — Senior Deputy Head (Pastoral) (source)
• Mr Dan Evans — Senior Housemaster (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold); recorded price paid £2.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (5,808 followers) · instagram (9,755 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~21.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR BILL STRAKER-NESBITchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ben Beardmore - Gray
• Caroline Wood
• Claire Elizabeth Lehr
• David Stewart · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dermot McNiffe
• Dr David John Colin Flower
• Emma Jane Hattersley
• Gillian Elwood · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Elizabeth Allen
• Jennifer Saraswathi Sauboorah
• Katy Dallimore
• Lucy Kalindawalo
• Nicolas Chivers
• Peter Brettell
• Rev Canon Keith Wilkinson
• Richard Ellard

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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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.

• David Stewart — trustee here and at CHELTENHAM COLLEGE CHARITABLE TRUST
• Gillian Elwood — trustee here and at CHELTENHAM COLLEGE CHARITABLE TRUST
• WILLIAM STRAKER-NESBIT — trustee here and at CHELTENHAM COLLEGE CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 BERKHAMPSTEAD SCHOOL (CHELTENHAM) TRUST LIMITED.

• BERKHAMPSTEAD SCHOOL (CHELTENHAM) TRUST LIMITED income £5.4m
• Headington School Oxford Limited income £28.8m
• CHELTENHAM COLLEGE CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.5m
• ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL WORCESTER income £26.3m
• ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE READING TRUST income £8.8m
• THE KING'S SCHOOL, GLOUCESTER income £13.9m

Side by side with its peers

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