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Registered charity · Bedford

Bedford School Foundation Trust

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £2.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
Where
Central Bedfordshire, Bedford
Website
www.bedfordschool.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Bedford School Foundation Trust
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.7m£1.5m
  • 2024£2.2m£815k
  • 2023£1.3m£600k
Earlier years
  • 2022£556k£457k
  • 2021£1.0m£659k
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:3.1 TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF PUPILS AT BEDFORD SCHOOL ("THE SCHOOL");3.2 TO PROMOTE THE FURTHER EDUCATION OF FORMER PUPILS OF THE SCHOOL;3.3 TO SUPPORT THE SCHOOL AND ITS CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

6 trustees on the board

2y median 2y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
11.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

6
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 6General Charitable Purposes 6

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 8Finance 3Arts and leisure 2

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£2.7m 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.

23.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 36.6 in 2021

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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
1094232
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 8 JULY 2002 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 20 MARCH 2004, 26 NOVEMBER 2007, 28 FEBRUARY 2009 AND 7 SEPTEMBER 2009. as amended on 07 Jul 2022 as amended on 07 Jul 2022 as amended on 16 Sept 2023
Companies House
Company number 04479551 · Active
Contact on the register
01234362241 · trust@bedfordschool.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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