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.

Objects

FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING AN EFFICIENT COURSE OF EDUCATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO AND INCLUDING THE AGE OF 20 YEARS COMPRISING RELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTRUCTION IN STRICT CONFORMITY WITH THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH, THE GREEK, LATIN AND MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE, HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, MATHEMATICS AND SUCH OTHER BRANCHES OF KNOWLEDGE AS MAY BE FOUND PRACTICABLE AND ADVANTAGEOUS TO INTRODUCE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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Registered contact address: Cheltenham, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

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 (3.7%) (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

Common questions

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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHELTENHAM LADIES COLLEGE.

• CHELTENHAM LADIES COLLEGE income £43.5m
• COPTHORNE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £2.6m
• CATERHAM SCHOOL income £48.8m
• FELTONFLEET SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £8.1m
• ROYAL ELTHAM PRE-SCHOOL income £153k
• ELHAM PRE-SCHOOL income £48k

Side by side with its peers

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