Registered charity · Templecombe
Marchant-Holliday School Limited
Marchant-Holliday School Limited is a registered charity (number 310218) based in Templecombe, governed by 6 trustees and chaired by Lt General Retd AM Palmer Anthony Palmer CB CBE since 2023. Latest income £3.9m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.
4 The charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are specifically restricted to the following:To advance for the public benefit education in the United Kingdom, in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing:(1) To carry on...
- 6 trustees
- Income £3.9m (2025)
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Who leads it
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Where
- Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, North Somerset and more
- Website
- www.marchant-holliday.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Marchant-Holliday School Limited
- Registered
- 1963
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£3.9m£3.8m
- 2024£4.6m£4.8m
- 2023£3.0m£3.2m
Earlier years
- 2022£3.2m£2.8m
- 2021£3.0m£2.6m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 96% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
4 The charity’s objects (‘Objects’) are specifically restricted to the following:To advance for the public benefit education in the United Kingdom, in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing:(1) To carry on Marchant-Holliday School and as an independent object to acquire as a going concern, establish, carry on or manage elsewhere, any subsidiary, affiliated or other schools or other education related services, for the education of boys and girls and to give pupils general or specialised instruction of the highest class, including, without limitation, making special educational provision for pupils with special educational needs and offering a broad and balanced curriculum.(2) To carry on any schools or other education related services acquired by the Charity as educational charities for the promotion of education generally including provision for the education and training of intending entrants to any private or state funded schools or places of education and to use and apply for that purpose all moneys and property coming to it.
Grants received
1 grant · £5,000 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £5,000
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Lt General Retd AM Palmer Anthony Palmer CB CBE Chair since 2023
- Jean Rosemary Walker since 2024
- Jonathan Mortimer since 2025
- Natasha Hopkins since 2022
- Nicola Jayne Slade since 2024
- Vicki Cotter since 2026
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Lt General Retd AM Palmer Anthony Palmer CB CBE Chair since 2023
- Jonathan Mortimer since 2025
- Nicola Jayne Slade since 2024
- Vicki Cotter since 2026
Portfolio (2)
- Jean Rosemary Walker since 2024
- Natasha Hopkins since 2022
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
19.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 28.3 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 310218
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15 JANUARY 1959 as amended on 30 Jan 2020 as amended on 30 Jan 2020
- Companies House
- Company number 00618973 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 0196333234 · s.lusher@marchant-holliday.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 25th October 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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