CANBURY SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 803766 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Canbury School is a small mainstream school which aims to educate a broad ability range of girls and boys of any nationality to a high standard, whilst retaining its personal touch and encouraging individual success, whether academically, personally or both. Bursaries may be available to parents who require financial assistance.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource surplus of £154,300 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted funds totaling £1,758,573. The trustees maintain that reserves are held at a level equivalent to between three and six months' expenditure, a policy they confirm has been maintained throughout the year. The independent auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's 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 Warner Wilde Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Canbury School (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Philippa Rich — Head (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)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Celia Alice Patterson
• Dr Elyse Rachael Shergold · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joan Louise Clancy
• Rosemary O'Malley
• Rupert Marks

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Thames · Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CANFORD SCHOOL LIMITED.

• CANFORD SCHOOL LIMITED income £27.3m
• ST JOHN'S COLLEGE SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE income £9.0m
• CLS BURSARY AND AWARDS FUND income £167k
• ST MARY'S SCHOOL (CALNE) income £18.5m
• BEACONSFIELD EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £6.5m
• THE KING'S SCHOOL OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY income £52.8m

Side by side with its peers

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