ARCHBISHOP TENISON'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 312694 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ARCHBISHOP TENISON'S UNITED SCHOOLS

Managing and disbursing income from an endowment to support education.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF ITEMS, SERVICES AND FACILITIES FOR A CHURCH OF ENGLAND BOYS DAY SCHOOL IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sevenoaks, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased significantly to £7,469,571 following the sale of the school site, reversing a prior year deficit. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and operates as a going concern. However, the charity faces a pending legal challenge regarding its endowments which has led to a cautious investment strategy.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lucy Swansonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Adrian Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Antony Phillips · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clive Jourdain
• Dr Sundiatu Dixon-Fyle
• John Walter
• Laurence Weeks
• Simon Tenison
• Stephen Adams
• Stephen Hugh Coulson

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ARCHBISHOP TENISON'S SCHOOL (CROYDON) DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• THE ARCHBISHOP TENISON'S SCHOOL (CROYDON) DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £82k
• THE ARCHBISHOP TENISON'S SCHOOL SPORTS GROUND income £106k
• TEWKESBURY EDUCATION TRUST FUND income £31k
• ETON PARISH EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £27k
• AVENUE PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION income £29k
• THE EQUINOXE TRUST income £785k

Side by side with its peers

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