LEICESTERSHIRE INDEPENDENT EDUCATIONAL TRUST

Registered charity 514407 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DIXIE GRAMMAR SCHOOL

To provide education for children of both sexes between the ages of 3 and 18

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £394,993 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total funds of £3,260,648. Per the trustees' report, the school's free reserves (unrestricted funds less tangible fixed assets and loans) total £52,051, with the majority of unrestricted funds invested in tangible fixed assets used for charitable activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Richard Lynn — Headmaster (source)
• Mr Michael Frost — Bursar, Clerk to the Governors (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Heathcote Foundation — “Heathcote Foundation” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £520k. 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 ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JO FENTON PARKESchair
• David Michael Jinks
• Jonathan Adam Marsh
• Leigh Harrison
• Lisa Pittwood
• Mark Ashfield · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neil Brian Roberts
• Professor Musa Mihsein
• Sarah Louise Kennedy
• Steven Daniel Boyes

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

Operates in: Leicestershire · Warwickshire

Income and spending

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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 LEICESTER HIGH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED.

• LEICESTER HIGH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
• LEICESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL TRUST income £235.7m
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE INDEPENDENT GRAMMAR SCHOOL CHARITY TRUST LIMITED income £4.3m
• THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
• LEICESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB TRUST LIMITED income £2.0m
• LEICESTER ISLAMIC ACADEMY income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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