RUGBY SCHOOL COMBINED WAR MEMORIAL FUND

Registered charity 528760 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trustees apply the net annual income, and may, if necessary resort to the capital, in making awards to help the children of Old Rugbeians, who are in need of financial assistance, to attend or remain at Rugby School.

Objects

5 (1) AFTER PAYMENT OF ANY EXPENSES OF ADMINISTRATION THE TRUSTEES SHALL APPLY THE NET YEARLY INCOME OF THE FOUNDATION, AND MAY, IF NECESSARY, RESORT TO THE CAPITAL IN MAKING AWARDS TO HELP PUPILS WHO ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ATTEND RUGBY SCHOOL WHOSE PARENT, PARENTS OR OTHER PERSON OF WHOM THEY ARE OR WERE A DEPENDENT IS ARE OR HAVE BEEN IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY'S ARMED FORCES INCLUDING VOLUNTEER SERVICES, AND IF THEY SO DECIDE: (A) TO HELP PUPILS WHOSE PARENT, PARENTS OR OTHER PERSON OF WHOM THEY ARE OR WERE A DEPENDENT IS ARE OR HAVE BEEN IN ANY EMERGENCY SERVICE OR THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INCLUDING SERVICES FUNDED BY NHS BODIES), IN ANY CASE, INCLUDING VOLUNTEER SERVICES; AND (B) TO HELP SUCH OTHER PUPILS WHO ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ATTEND RUGBY SCHOOL.

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 expenditure of £25,293 for the year ended 30 June 2025, funded by investment income of £32,693 and the use of capital reserves. The total restricted funds stood at £2,363,154, with the trustees confirming adequate resources to continue operations on a going concern basis.

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 policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

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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.

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)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dean James White
• Gareth Patrick John Parker-Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Christopher Catterall Maddocks · trustee of 3 other charities
• Nicholas Patrick Bacon · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE RUGBY SCHOOL GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE RUGBY SCHOOL GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £358k
• RIBBY-WITH-WREA ENDOWED CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £45k
• WINSCOMBE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB income £114k
• COVENTRY RUGBY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LTD income £146k
• RUGBY YOUTH FOR CHRIST income £99k
• RUGBY THEATRE income £323k

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