CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL

Registered charity 311736 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of high quality education to boys and girls

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £258,000 for the year, driven by government-imposed VAT on fees and increased costs for national insurance and business rates. While unrestricted net current assets were £2,267,000, the calculated reserves after adjusting for restricted funds and functional assets were negative £546,000. The trustees regard the liquid reserves as a better indicator of financial health and confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Will Phelan — Head (source)
• Peter Bodkin — Chair of Governors (source)
• Mr Luke Goodman — Senior Deputy Head: Pastoral (source)
• Mr Michael Stewart — Director of Finance (source)
• Rebecca Brown — Marketing, Communications and Events Director (source)
• Mrs Louise Brennan — Estates and Operations Director (source)
• Mrs Alice Taylor — Head of Infant and Junior School (source)
• Mr Manolis Psarros — Deputy Head: Staff (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)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £2.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Sheridan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Peter Charles Bodkin · trustee of 1 other charity
• HILARY VAUGHAN
• JASON COLLARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Morrison
• Jessica Wilkerson
• Joanne Oliver · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Davies
• Paula Shore · trustee of 1 other charity
• RACHEL THORNTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Alexander Narracott
• Thomas Lloyd-Jones
• Toby Mullins
• william james robertson

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

Operates in: Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

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 HIGHCLARE SCHOOL.

• HIGHCLARE SCHOOL income £8.0m
• NEWARK PREPARATORY SCHOOL COMPANY LIMITED income £1.2m
• DURSTON HOUSE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £6.9m
• Highworth Grammar School Trust, School Fund income £565k
• CLIFTON COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £171k
• CLIFTON COLLEGE income £43.0m

Side by side with its peers

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