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ST Mary's School (Colchester) Limited

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £7.0m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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
Essex, Suffolk
Website
www.stmaryscolchester.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
ST. Mary's School (Colchester) Limited
Registered
1970

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.0m£6.9m
  • 2024£6.2m£6.3m
  • 2023£6.2m£6.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.9m£6.0m
  • 2021£5.3m£5.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN CONNECTION THEREWITH TO CONDUCT, CARRY ON, ACQUIRE AND DEVELOP IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE ANY DAY OR BOARDING SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS FOR THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN & AS ANCILLARY THERETO:- (A) TO ACQUIRE AND TAKE OVER AS A GOING CONCERN THE SCHOOL HERETOFORE CARRIED ON BY ST. MARY'S SCHOOL (COLCHESTER) LIMITED. (B) TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN THE SAID SCHOOL AND AS AN INDEPENDENT OBJECT TO ESTABLISH OR ACQUIRE AS A GOING CONCERN, AND CARRY ON OR MANAGE ELSEWHERE ANY SUBSIDIARY, AFFILIATED OR OTHER SCHOOLS FOR THE EDUCATION OF BOYS OR GIRLS AND TO GIVE TO SUCH PUPILS GENERAL OR SPECIALISED INSTRUCTION OF THE HIGHEST CLASS BUT SO THAT EACH SUCH SCHOOL SHALL BE CARRIED ON AS AN EDUCATIONAL CHARITY. (C) TO CARRY ON ANY SCHOOLS ACQUIRED BY THE ASSOCIATION AS EDUCATIONAL CHARITIES FOR THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION GENERALLY, INCLUDING PROVISION FOR THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF INTENDING ENTRANTS TO ANY OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OR COLLEGES OR ANY OTHER SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES OR PLACES OF EDUCATION.

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.

13 trustees on the board

3.8y median 3y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (13)

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 13

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 13Other services 1Retail and trade 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£7.0m 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.

1.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.4 in 2021

106 from 75 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
309266
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 09/09/1970.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 04 MAR 1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05 SEP 2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11 MAY 2017
Companies House
Company number 00988976 · Active
Contact on the register
01206572544 · seniorschool@stmaryscolchester.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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