COWBRIDGE SCHOOL TRUST

Registered charity 525559 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COWBRIDGE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL TRUST, COWBRIDGE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL TRUST FORMERLY KNOWN AS COWBRIDGE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, COWBRIDGE GRAMMAR SCHOOL

The trust income is paid to the Sir Thomas Mansel Franklen Trust which provides special benefits over and above that provided by the Local Education Authority to Cowbridge Comprehensive School and may provide grants to pupils and former pupils. Trust land remaining is held to be used for the purposes of the School.

Objects

TO AUGMENT THE EXISTING FUNDS OF THE SIR THOMAS MANSEL FRANKLEN TRUST IN ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS: (1) IN PROVIDING FOR THE COWBRIDGE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL SPECIAL BENEFITS OF ANY KIND NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY. (2) IN PROMOTING THE EDUCATION, INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING, OF PERSONS WHO ARE OR WERE PUPILS AT THE SAID SCHOOL AND WHO ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

Area of benefit: THE CATCHMENT AREA OF COWBRIDGE COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL

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

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Registered contact address: Cardiff, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the net value of the fund decreased by £182,301 to £4,513,459, primarily due to the cost of the art block. The trustees have established a reserves policy target of £50,000, which is well below the total unrestricted reserves held. The independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention, indicating the accounts comply with legal requirements.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Estyn: Her Majesty's Inspectorate For Education And Training In Wales. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 25/05/2024, 115 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Geoffrey Bennett Reed
• HILARY DREW
• Katherine Elizabeth Kennedy
• Morgan Smith
• Sarah Smith
• Steven Robert Blackman
• Terrie Vaughan-Taylor

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

Operates in: Vale Of Glamorgan

Income and spending

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