The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 13th September 2026

OKS Educational and Benevolent Trust

Registered charity 1159522 Registered since 2014

Operates: Kent

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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.

4.6y median 3y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

1
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 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7

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 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£31k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024

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

Emaildevelopment@kings-school.co.uk
Phone07796177435
AddressThe Old Grange, The King's School, Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2ES

Finances

£26,197 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£17,888£23,611
2022£24,536£20,612
2023£25,692£31,133
2024£30,630£34,443
2025£26,197£36,119

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old People

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

1. TO RELIEVE WANT AMONGST OLD SCHOLARS, THEIR WIDOWS AND CHILDREN AND AMONGST FORMER MASTERS AND OTHER STAFF OF THE SCHOOL AND THEIR WIDOWS AND CHILDREN. 2. TO PAY FOR ALL OR ANY PART OF THE FEES PAYABLE IN RESPECT OF NECESSITOUS OLD PUPILS OF ANY AGE WHO SHALL FOR THE TIME BEING BE OR WISH TO BE FURTHER EDUCATED OR TRAINED WHEN THEY HAVE LEFT THE SCHOOL AT BY OR THROUGH ANY REPUTABLE EDUCATIONAL OR TRAINING ESTABLISHMENT WHATSOEVER IN THE UK OR ELSEWHERE. 3. TO MAKE PAYMENTS TO OR FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE KING'S SCHOOL OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY ("THE SCHOOL"). 4. TO MAKE PAYMENTS TO THE OKS BURSARSHIP SOCIETY (CHARITY CLOSED IN 2000). 5. TO CARRY OUT SUCH OTHER LEGALLY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AS THE TRUSTEES BEING NOT LESS THAN FIVE IN NUMBER SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME BY DEED EXECUTED WITH THEIR UNANIMOUS CONSENT DECLARE. 6. TO PAY ALL OR PART OF THE SCHOOL FEES PAYABLE IN RESPECT OF DESERVING BOYS AND GIRLS WHO SHALL FOR THE TIME BEING BE OR WISH TO BE EDUCATED AT THE SCHOOL AND WHO BUT FOR THE HELP OF THE CHARITY WOULD BE UNABLE TO BE OR REMAIN AT THE SCHOOL. 7. TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THE EDUCATION OF SCHOOLBOYS AND SCHOOLGIRLS AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO BUILD UP SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS.

Governing document: TRUST DEED DATED 17/06/1966AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 23/06/1998 as amended on 12 Feb 2020

Trustees (7)

7trustees
34median age
0aged 70+

Connected charities (1)

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