LEEDS GRAMMAR SCHOOL AND LEEDS GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 529215 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEEDS GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOUNDATION

Provision of school for boys and girls.Provision of financial assistance of school fees for boys and girls

Objects

(1) THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS TO FURTHER THE OBJECTS OF EITHER OR BOTH OF THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE COMPANIES: (A) THE COMPANY; (B) LEEDS GIRL'S HIGH SCHOOL (1048719)(2) SUBJECT TO THE POWER CONTAINED IN CLAUSE 21 OF THIS SCHEME, THE PROPERTY IDENTIFIED IN PART ONE OF THE SCHEDULE TO THIS SCHEME MUST BE RETAINED BY THE TRUSTEES FOR USE AS A SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS.

Area of benefit: LEEDS

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: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total funds of £19,620,952, comprising significant restricted and endowment funds, but carries a negative unrestricted fund balance of £137,636. The trustees have agreed with the school's directors to replenish the unrestricted funds through annual donations over a period not exceeding twenty years. The charity relies on investment income and donations to support bursaries and has confirmed its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Philip Brittonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Claire Vilarrubi · trustee of 2 other charities
• Georgina Mitchell
• Mark Curle
• Stephen Kingston

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL AT LEEDS.

• THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL AT LEEDS income £32.8m
• GIRLS INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION LEEDS income £183k
• LEEDS FAITH IN SCHOOLS income £207k
• LEWES OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL TRUST income £11.2m
• TUNBRIDGE WELLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR BOYS SCHOOL FUND income £782k
• THE GRESHAM'S FOUNDATION income £525k

Side by side with its peers

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