RUGBY SCHOOL

Registered charity 528752 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The School's principal activity is the education and pastoral care of its pupils.The provision of a broad liberal Christian education at a boarding and day school at Rugby School for children from Rugby and neighbourhood and elsewhere, and by ancillary or incidental activities and other associated activities for the benefit of the community.

Objects

THE PROVISION OF A BROAD LIBERAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AT A BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL AT RUGBY ("RUGBY SCHOOL") FOR CHILDREN FROM RUGBY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD AND ELSEWHERE, AND BY ANCILLARY OR INCIDENTAL ACTIVITIES AND OTHER ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £3.6 million for the year, primarily driven by a £4.1 million downward revaluation of the London Estate property investments. Despite showing a deficit in free reserves of £27.2 million, the Governing Body considers the position acceptable given the overall financial strength of the endowment investments and confirms adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2022 (received 28/05/2023, 28 days after the 30/04/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Gareth Parker-Jones — Head Master (source)
• Nick Bacon — Chairman of Rugby School’s Governing Body (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Arnold Foundation — “This includes boarders whose fees (and extras) are covered by the Arnold Foundation which supports talented children with a need for boardin…” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (78% 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: 14.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicholas Patrick Baconchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Caroline Thompson
• Christopher David Greenhalgh
• Christopher David Porter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Duncan Skailes
• Ed Lane Fox LVO
• Flora Joyce McLean · trustee of 1 other charity
• George Henry Fraser Swan
• Jeremy Christopher Catterall Maddocks · trustee of 3 other charities
• Stephen Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Reverend Canon Dr Mark Pryce
• Trevor John Strain · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ENGLAND RUGBY FOOTBALL SCHOOLS' UNION.

• ENGLAND RUGBY FOOTBALL SCHOOLS' UNION income £26k
• THE RUGBY SCHOOL GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £358k
• ABINGDON RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB LTD income £61k
• REPTON SCHOOL income £20.5m
• AYSGARTH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £4.9m
• OLD RUTLISHIANS' ASSOCIATION income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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