HEREFORD CATHEDRAL SCHOOL

Registered charity 518889 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charitable company's principle activity continues to be the management of the Hereford Cathedral Senior and Junior Schools.The charity provides education in Hereford for boys and girls from the age of 3-18.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £1.22m for the year, bringing total funds to £9.6m. The trustees consider the School to be a going concern, citing strong cash flow, stable investments, and supportive banking facilities.

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

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02081261
• Trading subsidiary: HCS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 11613027

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Michael Gray — Executive Headmaster (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BUTLER, Fiona Jane — director, appointed 08/12/2025on trustee list
• LEWIS, Michele Louise — director, appointed 18/08/2025on trustee list
• EVANS, Timothy James — director, appointed 01/05/2025on trustee list
• PALMER, Julian Philip — director, appointed 28/03/2025on trustee list
• SNOW, David Wallace Ballintine — director, appointed 10/10/2024on trustee list
• HITT, Sarah Jayne, Doctor — director, appointed 18/09/2024on trustee list
• ATKINS, Lorraine Michaela — director, appointed 06/09/2023on trustee list
• STOREY, Jonathan Miles — director, appointed 09/06/2022on trustee list
• LOWTON, Nicholas Gerard, The Reverend Prebendary — director, appointed 25/03/2022not on trustee list
• JONES, Christian Spencer Malcomson — director, appointed 04/07/2020on trustee list
• MILLAR, Jacqueline Margaret — director, appointed 21/11/2019on trustee list
• SHELDON, Jonathan Richard — director, appointed 18/03/2016on trustee list
• HANKS, William John — director, appointed 01/09/2013on trustee list
• TEALE, Andrew Terence, Canon — director, appointed 25/03/2011on trustee list
• JERRAM, Patrick Lyons — secretary, appointed 13/12/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

12 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold); recorded price paid £1.8m. 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 ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christian Spencer Malconson Joneschair
• Andrew Terence Teale · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Wallace Ballintine Snow
• Dr Sarah Jayne Hitt
• Fiona Jane Butler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jacqueline Millar · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jacquelyne Deval-Reed
• Jonathan Richard Sheldon · trustee of 3 other charities
• Julian Philip Palmer · trustee of 2 other charities
• LORRAINE MICHAELA ATKINS
• Michele Louise Lewis
• Rev Nicholas Gerard Lowton FRSA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy James Evans

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

Operates in: Herefordshire

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 FRIENDS OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL.

• THE FRIENDS OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL income £126k
• THE HEREFORD CATHEDRAL PERPETUAL TRUST income £618k
• THE WELLS CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £240k
• THE OLD HEREFORDIAN FUND CIO income £226k
• THE HEREFORD DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £6.0m
• CANFORD SCHOOL LIMITED income £27.3m

Side by side with its peers

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