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Abingdon School

Registered charity 1071298 Registered since 1998

Operates: Oxfordshire

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Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3.7y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (3)

13
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 13Other Charitable Purposes 2General Charitable Purposes 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 20Professional services 5Arts and leisure 3

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£34.7m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

18.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 21.4 in 2021

411 from 376 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.abingdon.org.uk
Emailcommon.room@abingdon.org.uk
Phone01235521563
AddressABINGDON SCHOOL, PARK ROAD, ABINGDON, OX14 1DE

Finances

£34,691,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£28,920,000£27,332,000
2022£32,344,000£30,152,000
2023£33,970,000£33,784,000
2024£35,239,000£34,470,000
2025£34,691,000£34,070,000

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

Children/young People

How

Provides Services

Charitable objects

(I) TO ADVANCE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE NOT OLDER THAN THE AGE OF NINETEEN YEARS AT ABINGDON SCHOOL OR SUCH OTHER SCHOOL AS THE GOVERNORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE; AND (II) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUPILS OF ABINGDON SCHOOL AND THE INHABITANTS OF THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE LIFE OF SAID INHABITANTS.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 2ND SEPTEMBER 1998 AS AMENDED 14 MARCH 2005.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05 JAN 2017

Trustees (13)

13trustees
65median age
3aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Abingdon Schools Group · 03625063 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 02/09/1998

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (4)

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