CLIFTON COLLEGE

Registered charity 311735 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The College comprises two schools whose objects are to provide an all round education to boys and girls from age 2 to age 18.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £2,002,000 for the year ended 31 August 2024, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds are negative due to significant investment in fixed assets and long-term debt, though net assets increased to £26,042,000. The charity notes that its free reserves are sensitive to its investment programme and financing arrangements, with working capital managed through careful oversight.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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

• Tim Greene — Head of College and Head Master of the Upper School (source)
• Jim Walton — Head of the Preparatory School (source)
• Pip Gillam — Deputy Head of Pre-Prep School (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)

52 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (43 freehold); recorded price paid £2.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (8,244 followers) · instagram (9,907 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% 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: 13.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Eynon
• Amanda Thorley
• Benjamin Britz
• Caroline Riley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Trembath
• Dom Jephcott
• James Womersley
• Jeremy Woods
• John Platts
• Matthew David Alexander Black
• Nicholas Tolchard
• Peter Green
• Robert Farrow
• Robin Bowie
• William Hugh Wadham Allen · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bristol City · North Somerset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CLIFTON COLLEGE ENDOWMENT FUND.

• CLIFTON COLLEGE ENDOWMENT FUND income £170k
• CLIFTON COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £171k
• CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL income £13.0m
• EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (INCORPORATED) income £28.1m
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SCHOOL income £36.3m
• THE NORTH LONDON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL income £36.6m

Side by side with its peers

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