QUEEN ELIZABETH I FOUNDATION

Registered charity 527594 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HARTLEBURY QUEEN ELIZABETH 1 FOUNDATION, QUEEN ELIZABETH'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL

The Charity provides Schools in or substantially serving the area of benefit such special benefits of any kind not normally provided by the local education authority and in promoting the education of persons under the age of 25 who are resident in the area of benefit and who are in need of financial assistance.

Objects

IN OR TOWARDS PROVIDING FOR STOURPORT-ON-SEVERN HIGH SCHOOL OR ANY OTHER SCHOOL IN OR SUBSTANTIALLY SERVING THE AREA OF BENEFIT SUCH SPECIAL BENEFITS OF ANY KIND NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE AGREED BETWEEN THE SCHOOL GOVERNORS AND THE TRUSTEES AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY. IN PROMOTING THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) OF PERSONS OF UNDER THE AGE OF 25 YEARS WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND WHO ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.

Area of benefit: ANCIENT PARISH OF HARTLEBURY

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Bromsgrove, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's total reserves decreased slightly from £3,103,294 to £3,084,743 due to investment losses, although unrestricted funds saw a net surplus. The trustees report that the charity remains in good financial health and holds free reserves of £206,043, which equate to approximately 2.5 years of running costs. The charity has no staff costs, trustees' remuneration, or related party transactions for the year.

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.

• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter John Holdenchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Andrew David Quinn
• GEOFFREY PHILIP THORP
• Helen Mary Talbot · trustee of 1 other charity
• Howard Stuart Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL JAMES CUPPER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Madeline Rosetta Cresswell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter John Stuart Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Raymond Walter Kirby

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with QUEEN ELIZABETH'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL CHARITY.

• QUEEN ELIZABETH'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL CHARITY income £37k
• ELIZABETH ALLEN TRUST income £34k
• THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE SCHOOLS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH THE FIRST, BARNET income £46k
• QUEEN MARY'S FOUNDATION income £88k
• QUEEN ELIZABETH SCHOLARSHIP TRUST LIMITED income £1.2m
• SIGNIFICANCE income £53k

Side by side with its peers

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