THE SAINT JOHN'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 312064 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SAINT JOHN'S FOUNDATION SCHOOL

To advance the education of boys and girls from the ages of 11 to 18. The provision of subsidised education for Foundationers (being children of Church of England or Church of Wales clergy of limited means). The provision of means-tested bursaries to pupils whose families would not otherwise be able to afford the full fees and thereby widen access to the education provided by the School.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the School reported a net surplus from operations of £765,214 for the year ended 31 July 2025. Although free reserves were negative at £276,000, the School held £10.3m in cash and confirmed it would continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due.

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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: ST JOHN'S (LEATHERHEAD) ENTERPRISES LTD Companies House 06646348 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St John's School Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alex Tate — Head (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)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~14.9 months of spending — in the top quarter 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/07/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/07/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sara Elizabeth Anne Lipscombe-Nottchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison Pullman MA Cantab
• Amanda McDowall
• Andrew Roberts
• Bruce Shaw BSC MRICS
• Christopher John Hutchinson · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Wickes
• Dhiraj Janak Patel
• Edward Russell
• John Saunders
• Kieran Darius Savak Burge · trustee of 1 other charity
• Margaret Gardiner Boiling
• Martin James Swain
• Nicola Senior
• Scott Williams BA FCMI

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 JOHN'S COLLEGE LIMITED.

• ST JOHN'S COLLEGE LIMITED income £7.1m
• SAINT JOHN SOUTHWORTH FOUNDATION income £762k
• ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £116k
• Haberdashers' Elstree Schools Foundation income £1.2m
• ST JOHN'S SCHOOL income £5.8m
• The St Peter's College Foundation income £519k

Side by side with its peers

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