The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 13th September 2026

Cheam School Educational Trust

Registered charity 290143 Registered since 1984

Operates: Hampshire

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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.

2.7y median 2.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

10
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 10Disability 1Economic/community Development/employment 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 18Finance 7Professional services 6

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£9.0m 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.

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

164 from 164 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.

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

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Contact

Websitewww.cheamschool.co.uk
Emailbursar@cheamschool.co.uk
Phone01635267800
AddressCheam School, Newbury Road, Headley, Thatcham, RG19 8LD

Finances

£8,959,694 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£7,234,550£7,129,608
2022£7,911,734£7,368,179
2023£8,761,916£7,908,562
2024£8,965,765£8,830,136
2025£8,959,694£8,486,204

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

Children/young PeopleThe General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Services

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, PROVIDE FOR AND ASSIST IN:- THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE, SUCH EDUCATION TO BE DESIGNED TO GIVE A SOUND CHRISTIAN AND MORAL BASIS TO ALL PUPILS, AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, TO EDUCATE BACKWARD AND OTHER HANDICAPPED CHILDREN. THE ADVANCEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE OPERATION AND APPLICATIONS OF COMPUTERS AND ALL ALLIED FORMS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; THE CREATION OF A LANGUAGE SCHOOL TO PROVIDE A RANGE OF COURSES FOR BOTH CHILDREN AND ADULTS TO STUDY AND LEARN (I) FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND (II) THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WHERE THAT IF NOT THE STUDENT'S NATURAL TONGUE; THE SPONSORSHIP AND SUPPLY OF FACILITIES FOR, AND IN GENERAL TO ENCOURAGE THE PURSUIT BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC OF, RECREATIONAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23RD AUGUST 1984

Trustees (10)

10trustees
54median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Cheam School Educational Trust · 01843219 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 23/08/1984

2 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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