KESWICK SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 526847 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KESWICK SCHOOL, KESWICK SCHOOL TRUST, TRUSTEES OF KESWICK SCHOOL

Assist the Governors of the Keswick School. Promoting and supporting the education of children attending Keswick School.

Objects

FOR USE AS A VOLUNTARY SCHOOL INCOME OF THE SCHOOL TO BE USED FOR:- (1) ASSISTING THE GOVERNORS OF THE SCHOOL TO DEFRAY THE COST OF MEETING THEIR OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE EDUCATION ACTS 1944 TO 1978, (2) IN PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING SPECIAL BENEFITS AT THE SCHOOL OF ANY KIND NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL AUTHORITY, (3) IN PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN ATTENDING THE SCHOOL IN SUCH WAYS AS THE GOVERNORS THINK FIT.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £22,539, which the trustees note are not held at high levels. The total net assets decreased from £1,704,260 to £1,650,921, primarily due to a decrease in the net value of the investment portfolio.

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.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexandra Boardman
• DAVID JOHN WALKER
• David Hammond
• Dr PETER JOSEPH ROBERTS BA PHD
• Dr William Ponsonby
• Helen Trott
• Justin Scott
• Rev Charles Henry Hope · trustee of 13 other charities
• Sarah Fiona Peck
• Stephen Harwood · trustee of 1 other charity
• Trevor Keough · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).