The King's School Worcester Charitable Trust

Registered charity 527530 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE KING'S SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT TRUST, THE KING'S SCHOOL WORCESTER DEVELOPMENT TRUST

The primary activity of the charity is to provide financial support to the charitable purposes of The King's School Worcester. It aims to do so mainly through the generation of funds from which significant bursary grants may be made to enable pupils to attend the School whose families would otherwise be unable to affords for them to do so.

Objects

1) SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE SCHOOL AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE, OR 2) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR SUCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS (WHETHER OR NOT CONNECTED WITH THE WORCESTER CATHEDRAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL) AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN LIKE MANNER DETERMINE.

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: Worcester, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves stood at £5,927,070, with unrestricted reserves of £38,523. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves are in excess of their stated policy target, which is deemed appropriate at this time. The charity generated a net surplus of £482,161 for the year, supported by significant investment gains.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richards Sandy Audit Services Limited. Discloses 4 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.

• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The King's School Worcester Charitable Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicholas William Clarkchair
• DAVID LAURENCE GREEN
• DONALD TREVOR HOWELL
• Hannah Edwards
• John Foley
• John Francis Attwater · trustee of 5 other charities
• Thomas Dupernex
• Timothy Rupert Brock · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE KING'S SCHOOL WORCESTER.

• THE KING'S SCHOOL WORCESTER income £20.8m
• THE KING'S SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £86k
• THE WESTMINSTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED income £105
• THE KING'S SCHOOL, ELY income £31.7m
• KING'S SCHOOL income £17.8m
• OKS EDUCATIONAL AND BENEVOLENT TRUST income £26k

Side by side with its peers

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