Registered charity · Croydon
Russell School Trust
- 17 trustees
- Income £33m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Andrew MerrimanChair
- Andrew LorieTrustee · since 2016
- Andrew Roach-BowlerTrustee · since 2019
- Daniel Alan RogersTrustee · since 2025
- Dr Agnelo FernandesTrustee
- James Douglas LaceyTrustee · since 2015
- James Penny Acib FSITrustee
- Jane Victoria BurtonTrustee · since 2026
- Jennifer SmithTrustee · since 2019
- Lisa Jane JessupTrustee · since 2012
- Michelle GrantTrustee · since 2022
- Nicholas CobillTrustee · since 2018
- Olivia Bedell-PearceTrustee · since 2022
- Peter DawsonTrustee · since 2020
- Professor Ali Massoud AnsariTrustee · since 2019
- Shirley ThompsonTrustee · since 2022
- SIR Philip Drury Moor QCTrustee
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
- Surrey
- Website
- www.royalrussell.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Russell School Trust
- Registered
- 1976
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£33m£30m
- 2024£30m£29m
- 2023£31m£26m
Earlier years
- 2022£23m£22m
- 2021£20m£19m
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FORGOING
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.
17 trustees on the board
- Andrew Merriman Chair
- Andrew Lorie since 2016
- Andrew Roach-Bowler since 2019
- Daniel Alan Rogers since 2025
- Dr Agnelo Fernandes
- James Penny Acib FSI
- James Douglas Lacey since 2015
- Jane Victoria Burton since 2026
- Jennifer Smith since 2019
- Lisa Jane Jessup since 2012
- Michelle Grant since 2022
- Nicholas Cobill since 2018
- Olivia Bedell-Pearce since 2022
- Peter Dawson since 2020
- Professor Ali Massoud Ansari since 2019
- SIR Philip Drury Moor QC
- Shirley Thompson since 2022
6.4y median 7y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure
Trustees past 6 years
- Andrew Lorie since 2016
- Andrew Roach-Bowler since 2019
- James Douglas Lacey since 2015
- Jennifer Smith since 2019
- Lisa Jane Jessup since 2012
- Nicholas Cobill since 2018
- Peter Dawson since 2020
- Professor Ali Massoud Ansari since 2019
11.2y
average years in governance
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (15)
- Andrew Merriman Chair
- Andrew Lorie since 2016
- Andrew Roach-Bowler since 2019
- Daniel Alan Rogers since 2025
- Dr Agnelo Fernandes
- James Penny Acib FSI
- Jane Victoria Burton since 2026
- Jennifer Smith since 2019
- Lisa Jane Jessup since 2012
- Michelle Grant since 2022
- Olivia Bedell-Pearce since 2022
- Peter Dawson since 2020
- Professor Ali Massoud Ansari since 2019
- SIR Philip Drury Moor QC
- Shirley Thompson since 2022
Portfolio (2)
- James Douglas Lacey since 2015
- Nicholas Cobill since 2018
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 17Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency 1Disability 1Other Charitable Purposes 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 21Health and social care 4Retail and trade 4
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.
incomespending£32.6m 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.
11.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months
328 from 264 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
- 271907
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15TH MARCH 1974 AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 27 NOVEMBER 1998.
- Companies House
- Company number 01163246 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02086579702 · ncufley@royalrussell.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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