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Registered charity · London

Colfe's School

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £28m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout London, Kent
Website
www.colfes.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Colfe's School
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£28m£26m
  • 2024£27m£26m
  • 2023£25m£24m
Earlier years
  • 2022£22m£21m
  • 2021£19m£19m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE SCHOOL ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROVISION AND CONDUCT OF A DAY SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND GIRLS IN OR NEAR THE LONDON BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM, WHICH SCHOOL SHALL BE CALLED COLFE'S SCHOOL (BEING THE SCHOOL FOUNDED BY THE REVEREND JOHN GLYNN IN 1568 AND AUGMENTED AND REGULATED BY THE WILL OF ABRAHAM COLFE WHO DIED IN 1657) AND, IN SO FAR AS IT IS INCIDENTAL OR ANCILLARY TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, SUCH OTHER PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE

Grants received

8 grants · £2,255,500 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

15 trustees on the board

5.6y median 5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (5)

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 15Accommodation/housing 1Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Environment/conservation/heritage 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 18Business services 5Professional services 5

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£27.7m 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.

3.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.7 in 2021

376 from 342 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
1109650
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 04/02/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/05/2015 as amended on 04 May 2023
Companies House
Company number 05352523 · Active
Contact on the register
02084638112 · info@colfes.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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