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Reading Blue Coat School

2.1 The Charity's objects are:2.1.1 the advancement of education by carrying on or managing schools for boys, girls and young people under the age of 25 years in which religious instruction in accordance with the teachings of the Church of England...

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £19m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Reading
Website
www.rbcs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Reading Blue Coat School
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£19m£18m
  • 2024£18m£18m
  • 2023£17m£16m
Earlier years
  • 2022£16m£14m
  • 2021£14m£13m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

2.1 The Charity's objects are:2.1.1 the advancement of education by carrying on or managing schools for boys, girls and young people under the age of 25 years in which religious instruction in accordance with the teachings of the Church of England shall be given;2.1.2 to apply income not required for the maintenance of the schools carried or managed by the Charity in any one or more of the following ways for the benefit of persons who have not yet attained the age of 25 years who are about to attend or are attending, or have for not less than three years at any time attended Reading Blue Coat School at Holme Park, Sonning on Thames, Berkshire RG4 6SU, referred to in these articles as ‘the School’ and who, in the opinion of the Governors are in need of financial assistance:2.1.2.1 the award of scholarships, bursaries or maintenance allowances tenable at the School, or any university, or other place of learning approved by the Governors;2.1.2.2 the provision of financial assistance, outfits, clothing, tools, instruments or books to help beneficiaries on leaving the School, a university or any other educational establishment to prepare for, or to enter, a profession, trade or calling;2.1.2.3 the award of scholarships or maintenance allowances to enable beneficiaries to travel abroad to pursue their education;2.1.2.4 the provision, or assistance towards the provision, of facilities for recreation and social and physical training, including the provision of coaching in athletics, sport and games, for beneficiaries; and2.1.2.5 the provision of financial assistance to enable beneficiaries to study music or other artsprovided that there shall be maintained in the School six scholarships, comprising total or partial remission of tuition, to persons found fit for admission to the School, all of whom shall be resident within 40 miles (in a straight line) of the School.2.2 Nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with any statutory provision regarding the meaning of the word "charitable" or the words "charitable purposes" in force in any part of the United Kingdom.

Board analysis

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.

12 trustees on the board

3.6y median 3y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

11
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 12Disability 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 15Finance 5Other services 2

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£19.4m latest income
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

226 from 191 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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1087839
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 JUNE 2001 as amended on 27 Nov 2023
Companies House
Company number 04243510 · Active
Contact on the register
01189335808 · bursar@rbcs.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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