THE KING'S SCHOOL, ELY

Registered charity 802427 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC INCLUDING EDUCATION IN THE DOCTRINES AND PRACTICE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

Objects

THE OBJECT FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED IS TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC INCLUDING EDUCATION IN THE TEACHINGS AND PRACTICE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ("THE OBJECT").

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £1,311,375 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total funds standing at £22,725,949. Per the trustees' report, the School's reserves policy is to hold three months' operating reserves, but due to reinvestment into fixed assets, there are no free reserves at the year end. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £190,000 - £199,999 (FY2024) to £200,001 - £210,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Volunteer management

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr John Attwater — Principal (source)
• Mr David Day — Chair of Governors (source)
• Mrs Fiona Sanders-Hewett — Chief Financial Officer (source)
• Mr Mark Hart — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Mrs Jane Thomas — Head of Senior (source)
• Mr Simon Kibler — Head of Prep (source)
• Mrs Faye Fenton-Stone — Head of Pre-Prep and Nursery (source)
• Mrs Amanda East — Vice Chair of Governors (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

25 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (16 freehold); recorded price paid £217k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (9,025 followers) · instagram (6,811 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Richard Hartman Harding
• Anthea Jane Kenna · trustee of 5 other charities
• DAVID JOHN DAY
• Daniel John Lewis Coston
• Elizabeth Mary Allan
• Fenella Jane Martin-Redman
• Isobel Philippa Newport-Mangell · trustee of 2 other charities
• Joseph Anthony Peake
• Kathleen Mitchell Milne
• Lady AMANDA HAZELL EAST · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Felix Wingfield Longford · trustee of 2 other charities
• PHILIP JOHN SIMON CANTWELL
• Professor Michael Richard Edward Proctor FRS FIMA
• THE VERY REVEREND MARK PHILIP JOHN BONNEY · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Lady AMANDA HAZELL EAST — trustee here and at THE RELITHAN CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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