REPTON SCHOOL TRUST

Registered charity 527177 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as REPTON SCHOOL

Repton School Trust's principal objective is to further the education of children and young persons.The Trust provides the land and buildings from which Repton School and Repton Preparatory School operate.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£3.6m

Latest spending

£2.2m

Registered

1966

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £4,196,393, while total net assets rose to £86,899,189. The trustees report a surplus of £1,354,474 and confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Group cross guarantee

“The Charity has a contingent liability in respect of a multilateral cross guarantee, relating to the bank overdraft facility granted under a group set off arrangement between Repton School, Repton Preparatory School, Repton School Trust and Sir John Port's Charity. This guarantee is limited to £1,500,000.” — page 35

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Repton Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Mark Semmence — 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Total income

£3.6m

Total spending

£2.2m

Reserves (reported)

£4.2m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~22.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (91% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (13/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Sir John Ports Charity

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£3.6m	£2.2m
31/08/2024	£2.7m	£2.1m
31/08/2023	£4.5m	£2.0m
31/08/2022	£2.1m	£1.8m
31/08/2021	£1.1m	£1.8m

Common questions

Is REPTON SCHOOL TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £4,196,393, while total net assets rose to £86,899,189. The trustees report a surplus of £1,354,474 and confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by HaysMac LLP.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
The A and J Charitable Trust	1	£155k
THE TOLKIEN TRUST	1	£100k
THE EDWARD & CATHERINE WRAY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£30k
DRAGON CHRISTMAS CHARITY SALE	1	£22k
THE COLYER-FERGUSSON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£15k
THE DULVERTON TRUST	1	£5k
DIDYMUS	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REPTON SCHOOL.

REPTON SCHOOL income £20.5m
REPTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL income £7.9m
REPTON COMMUNITY TRUST income £259k
DRAGON SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £25.5m
Bedford School Foundation Trust income £2.7m
THE VERNON EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £13.5m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
REPTON SCHOOL TRUST	£3.6m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
REPTON SCHOOL FY2025	£20.5m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
REPTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FY2025	£7.9m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
REPTON COMMUNITY TRUST FY2025	£259k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
DRAGON SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£25.5m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
Bedford School Foundation Trust FY2025	£2.7m	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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