ROKEBY EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 312653 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROKEBY SCHOOL

To educate boys aged 4 to 13.

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Latest income
£8.9m
Latest spending
£8.2m
Registered
1966
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £717,327 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted funds totaling £11,356,387. Per the trustees' report, cash balances were £8,240,469 at year-end, and the Governors are satisfied that the financial position will enable future strategic plans to be achieved.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: minimum cash balance equivalent to at least one term's fee income (held: £5.9m)
“The minimum reserves required are based on a minimum cash balance as set out above in the KPIs. The reserves necessary to meet these needs comprise the General Fund.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Pension scheme deficit: £39800.0m
“The Valuation Report shows notional assets of £222.2bn and liabilities of £262bn, resulting in a scheme deficit of £39.8bn.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Rokeby School Trading Limited
“On the 9 February 2025 Rokeby School Trading Limited (Company house number : 15477119) was incorporated and became the whole owned subsidiary of Rokeby Educational Trust Limited.” — page 28
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 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 31/08/2025)

Total income
£8.9m
Total spending
£8.2m
Reserves (reported)
£11.4m
Employees
101

Reported reserves equal ~16.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Thames · Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£8.9m£8.2m
31/08/2024£8.5m£8.0m
31/08/2023£7.7m£7.4m
31/08/2022£7.2m£6.7m
31/08/2021£6.8m£6.2m

Common questions

Is ROKEBY EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £717,327 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted funds totaling £11,356,387. Per the trustees' report, cash balances were £8,240,469 at year-end, and the Governors are satisfied that the financial position will enable future strategic plans to be achieved. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by HaysMac LLP.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England07/09/2012£8kFutsal Growth in Participation for 14-18 year olds
Sport England16/03/2011£2kCricket participation and young leader development
Sport England15/01/2010£3kBadminton Playing & Coach Development
Sport England01/10/2009£5kBasketball coach, player and officials growth

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ROKEBY EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED£8.9m——unclear—no doubt
THE ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL TRUST FY2025£2.2m——above—no doubt
STOWE SCHOOL LIMITED FY2025£53.6m——unclear—no doubt
LEICESTERSHIRE INDEPENDENT EDUCATIONAL TRUST FY2025£7.2m——below—no doubt
DERBY HIGH SCHOOL TRUST FY2025£10.2m——unclear—no doubt
COKETHORPE EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£13.4m——above—no doubt

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