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Registered charity · Bristol

The Downs School (Charlton House) Limited

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £5.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
North Somerset
Website
www.thedownsschool.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Downs School (Charlton House) Limited
Registered
1972

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.8m£5.7m
  • 2024£5.7m£5.5m
  • 2023£5.2m£5.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.8m£4.5m
  • 2021£4.1m£3.8m
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 ANY BOARDING OR DAY SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS FOR THE EDUCATION OF EITHER SEX OR BOTH SEXES.

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.

11 trustees on the board

4.6y median 4y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (4)

9
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 11

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 11Business services 4Construction 2

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£5.8m 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.

9.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 12.0 in 2021

89 from 99 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
310279
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/09/1972NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 17/10/2013
Companies House
Company number 01072074 · Active
Contact on the register
01275852008 · office@thedownsschool.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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