ABERDOUR SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST

Registered charity 312033 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ABERDOUR SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED

To run Aberdour School and provide an excellent all round education for boys and girls from 2 to 13 years.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN CONNECTION THEREWITH TO CONDUCT, CARRY ON, ACQUIRE AND DEVELOP IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ANY BOARDING OF EITHER SEX OR BOTH SEXES AND TO SUPPLY TO THE PUPILS GENERALS INSTRUCTION OF THE HIGHEST CLASS, TOGETHER WITH PHYSICAL, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS TRAINING, BUT SO THAT EACH SUCH SCHOOL SHALL BE CARRIED ON AS AN EDUCATIONAL CHARITY.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust earned a surplus of £138,017 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with net assets totaling £2,929,680. The Trustees report that free revenue reserves amounted to £2,929,680, noting a long-term policy to build up these reserves to fund capital investment and reduce reliance on bank borrowings. The independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by FLB Audit 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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Phillip Makhouli — Headmaster (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 (1 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 · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Donald Daviechair
• COLIN DENIS WRIGHT
• Michael John Pettit
• Moira Elizabeth McKerchar
• Peter John Dickerson
• Rev David Norman Senior
• Rosena Mary Monaghan

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST AUBYN'S (WOODFORD GREEN) SCHOOL TRUST.

• ST AUBYN'S (WOODFORD GREEN) SCHOOL TRUST income £6.3m
• CHEAM SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £9.0m
• ST EDMUND'S SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £17.3m
• SOMERHILL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £9.7m
• THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
• DURSTON HOUSE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £6.9m

Side by side with its peers

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