ROSSALL SCHOOL

Registered charity 526685 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5493652 · Wikipedia

Provide general education/schooling

Objects

PROVISION AT A MODERATE COST FOR THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF CLERGYMEN AND OTHERS, WITHOUT LIMIT OF AGE, A CLASSICAL, MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL EDUCATION OF THE HIGHEST CLASS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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: Wyre, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated net movement in funds of a loss of £487,826 for the year ended 31 August 2025, compared to a loss of £628,586 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £5,532,473 and cash of £5,323,577, while acknowledging significant cost pressures from legislative changes such as VAT on fees.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: ROSSALL ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 02028626 · Financial health read from its filings

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Keith Joseph Budgechair
• Alastair James England Horabin
• Belinda Anne Doshi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carrie Mary Rooney
• DR David M Elliott BSc MB ChB
• David Gill FCA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr HENRY FAJEMIROKUN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gillian Austin-King
• Jason Holt
• Jonathan Arundel
• Julie Louise Pethick
• LILLIAN CROSTON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lieutenant Colonel Robert Carr
• Mark Turner
• Oliver Colling
• Rev Damian Edward Platt
• S JOHN FISHER MA
• The Reverend Grant Ashton

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROSSALL FOUNDATION.

• THE ROSSALL FOUNDATION income £209k
• RUSSELL SCHOOL TRUST income £32.6m
• Town Close Educational Trust Ltd income £6.2m
• GHYLL ROYD SCHOOL income £1.2m
• HOLMEWOOD HOUSE SCHOOL income £9.4m
• NEW LONDON EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £101k

Side by side with its peers

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