UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SCHOOL

Registered charity 312748 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UCS, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SCHOOL, HAMPSTEAD

The foundation provides independent educational facilities for pupils aged 4 to 18.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £20,280,000, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £10.3m. The charity reported a consolidated net income of £4,067,000 and maintains a strong liquidity position with bank and term deposit balances of £19,273,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• JJ 04/82: Al Cohn at University College School, Hampstead jazzjournal.co.uk · 28/04/2022
• JJ 03/82: Mark Murphy at University College School, Hampstead jazzjournal.co.uk · 30/03/2022

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Beard — Headmaster (source)
• Andrew Wilkes — Deputy Head (Pastoral) (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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (363 followers) · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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: 4.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Burford Warshawchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Brem · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Shaw
• Angela Ryker Gallagher
• EDWARD MAX ZIFF · trustee of 2 other charities
• Helen Laura Pike
• Joseph Charles Cohen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marta Brnicevic
• Matthew John Sadler
• Professor Wei Li
• Reena Gogna · trustee of 2 other charities
• Richard Philip Webber Donner · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sir William Desmond Sargent
• Timothy George Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Stephen Benjamin

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE UNICORN SCHOOL LTD.

• THE UNICORN SCHOOL LTD income £2.9m
• HURSTPIERPOINT COLLEGE LIMITED income £40.3m
• EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (INCORPORATED) income £28.1m
• UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES INFORMATION SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION income £2.4m
• CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS LIMITED income £4.5m
• UK CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS LTD income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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