MALVERN ST JAMES LIMITED

Registered charity 527513 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MALVERN GIRLS' COLLEGE (1928) LTD

Girls Independent Boarding and Day School

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Latest income

£15.0m

Latest spending

£16.8m

Registered

1963

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated deficit of £7.183m for the 17-month period ended 31 January 2025, compared to a deficit of £933k in the prior year. Despite this deficit, net funds stood at £1,019k, supported by the sale of surplus assets including boarding houses and the main school for £4.2m. The trustees noted that surplus funds from the school sale are to be invested by the charity, subject to approval of a change in objects.

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

What the accounts disclose

Trading subsidiary: Malvern St James Enterprises Limited

“The School made a consolidated deficit of £7.183m (2023 - £933k), which includes a deficit of £Nil (2023: £140k) relating to its subsidiary Malvern St James Enterprises Limited.” — page 18

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2023) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Nicholas Grenfell-Marten — Chairman of the School Management Board (source)
Mrs Frances King — Interim Headmistress (source)
Mrs Zinnia Wilkinson — Senior Deputy Head (Pastoral) (source)
Mrs Lucy Hutton — Deputy Head (Academic) (source)
Mr Tim Williams — Bursar (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (11 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Total income

£15.0m

Total spending

£16.8m

Cost of raising funds

£675k

Reserves (reported)

£0

Employees

260

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (100% 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: 4.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

MICHAEL HODGESchair
Alison Capper · trustee of 1 other charity
CDR SUSIE JANE MORAN
Gemma Bruce
Jenny Thomas
Naomi Atkins
Roger Usher · trustee of 1 other charity
Susan Doyle

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/01/2025	£15.0m	£16.8m
31/08/2023	£10.5m	£11.4m
31/08/2022	£9.3m	£10.2m
31/08/2021	£9.6m	£9.6m
31/08/2020	£10.6m	£10.1m

Common questions

Is MALVERN ST JAMES LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated deficit of £7.183m for the 17-month period ended 31 January 2025, compared to a deficit of £933k in the prior year. Despite this deficit, net funds stood at £1,019k, supported by the sale of surplus assets including boarding houses and the main school for £4.2m. The trustees noted that surplus funds from the school sale are to be invested by the charity, subject to approval of a change in objects. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. 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 MALVERNIAN SOCIETY LIMITED	1	£82k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JAMES ALLEN'S GIRLS' SCHOOL.

JAMES ALLEN'S GIRLS' SCHOOL income £32.8m
ST MARY'S SCHOOL (COLCHESTER) LIMITED income £7.0m
ST MARY'S SCHOOL (CALNE) income £18.5m
MALVERN COLLEGE income £55.8m
ST HUGH'S SCHOOL (CARSWELL) TRUST LIMITED income £7.5m
BURY MANOR SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED (DORSET HOUSE SCHOOL) income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
MALVERN ST JAMES LIMITED	£15.0m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
JAMES ALLEN'S GIRLS' SCHOOL FY2025	£32.8m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ST MARY'S SCHOOL (COLCHESTER) LIMITED FY2025	£7.0m	£80,001 - £90,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ST MARY'S SCHOOL (CALNE) FY2025	£18.5m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
MALVERN COLLEGE FY2025	£55.8m	£230,000 - £240,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ST HUGH'S SCHOOL (CARSWELL) TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£7.5m	£140,001 - £150,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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