The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

The King's School of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury

Registered charity 307942 Registered since 1966

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.

4.4y median 4y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

Portfolio (4)

5
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 17Religious Activities 3Arts/culture/heritage/science 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 5Finance 3Business services 2

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£52.8m latest income
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.

4.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 6.2 in 2021

908 from 819 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.

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Contact

Websitewww.kings-school.co.uk
EmailBursar@kings-bursary.co.uk
Phone01227595720
AddressTHE KINGS SCHOOL, BURSARS OFFICE, 25 THE PRECINCTS, CANTERBURY, CT1 2ES

Finances

£52,797,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£39,876,000£36,410,000
2022£44,231,000£40,889,000
2023£49,258,000£48,011,000
2024£49,865,000£51,012,000
2025£52,797,000£52,762,000

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

(1) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF BOTH SEXES (2) TO CARRY ON AND MAINTAIN THE SCHOOL KNOWN AS THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY (WHICH SCHOOL INCLUDES THE PREPARATORY SCHOOL KNOWN AS THE JUNIOR KING'S SCHOOL AND THE PRE-PREPARATORY SCHOOL KNOWN AS THE MILNER COURT PRE-PREP) TOGETHER WITH ALL THE LANDS, SECURITIES, MONEYS AND PROPERTY OF EVERY DESCRIPTION REAL OR PERSONAL VESTED IN, OR BELONGING TO, ANY TRUSTEES ON BEHALF OF THE FOUNDATION AS DEFINED IN THE SAID SUPPLEMENTAL ROYAL CHARTER DATED 4TH FEBRUARY 1992

Governing document: SCHEMES OF 03.11.1927, 05.07.1935, 07.10.1947, 25.02.1977, AND 19TH MARCH 1992 AND ROYAL CHARTER OF 08.07.1946 AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL ROYAL CHARTER 4TH FEBRUARY 1992

Trustees (17)

17trustees
57median age
2aged 70+

Connected charities (11)

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