COVENTRY SCHOOL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 528961 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BABLAKE SCHOOL · filing overdue (register status)

Coventry School Foundation Schools provide an independent education for around 2,000 pupils aged 3-18. The schools, all of which are co-educational, are Bablake Senior and Junior Schools, Bablake Pre Prep (also known as The Grange), King Henry VIII Senior and Junior Schools and King Henry VIII Pre-Prep. Bursaries & scholarships are available on entry at years 3 and 7.

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Latest income
£26.4m
Latest spending
£27.2m
Registered
1975
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The provided text contains fragmented notes regarding staff pension contributions and a specific capital fund, but lacks the comprehensive financial statements required to assess overall financial health. Consequently, no definitive conclusion on the charity's financial stability can be drawn from this excerpt alone.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

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Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2024)

Total income
£26.4m
Total spending
£27.2m
Cost of raising funds
£29k
Reserves (reported)
£0
Employees
432

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: Charitable activities (91% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Coventry City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025——
31/08/2024£26.4m£27.2m
31/08/2023£22.9m£24.7m
31/08/2022£21.8m£24.3m
31/08/2021£22.3m£23.5m

Common questions

Is COVENTRY SCHOOL FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The provided text contains fragmented notes regarding staff pension contributions and a specific capital fund, but lacks the comprehensive financial statements required to assess overall financial health. Consequently, no definitive conclusion on the charity's financial stability can be drawn from this excerpt alone.

Who funds COVENTRY SCHOOL FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name COVENTRY SCHOOL FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include COVENTRY CHURCH (MUNICIPAL) CHARITIES.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
COVENTRY CHURCH (MUNICIPAL) CHARITIESFY2025£1kGrants: Educational purposes
COVENTRY CHURCH (MUNICIPAL) CHARITIESFY2022£1kGrants: Educational purposes
COVENTRY CHURCH (MUNICIPAL) CHARITIESFY2023£750Grants: Educational purposes
COVENTRY CHURCH (MUNICIPAL) CHARITIESFY2024£750Grants: Educational purposes

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund25/02/2005£690"A Project To Commemorate The 60th Anniversary Of The End Of Ww2 With The Provision Of A Permanent Archive Of The Experiences Of Former Stude"

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHELTENHAM COLLEGE AND CHELTENHAM COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
COVENTRY SCHOOL FOUNDATION£26.4m——unclear—no doubt
CHELTENHAM COLLEGE AND CHELTENHAM COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL FY2025£41.7m£190,001 - £200,000—unclear—no doubt
KINGDOM EDUCATION LIMITED FY2025£1.7m—0unclear—no doubt
THE LEYS AND ST FAITH'S SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FY2025£34.4m—0unclear—no doubt
SHREWSBURY SCHOOL FOUNDATION FY2025£1.9m——unclear—no doubt
WARWICK INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FY2025£53.3m——unclear—no doubt

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