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Registered charity · Buckingham

Stowe School Limited

Stowe School Limited is a registered charity (number 310639) based in Buckingham, governed by 21 trustees and chaired by Simon Charles Creedy Smith. Latest income £54m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

3. The objects for which the Company is established are to advance education by:3.1 The provision of a school for boys and girls at Stowe in Buckinghamshire and/or if thought desirable of other schools in England or Wales which shall provide...

  • 21 trustees
  • Income £54m (2025)
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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Buckinghamshire
Website
www.stowe.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Stowe School Limited
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£54m£49m
  • 2024£51m£44m
  • 2023£42m£42m
Earlier years
  • 2022£41m£38m
  • 2021£35m£31m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

3. The objects for which the Company is established are to advance education by:3.1 The provision of a school for boys and girls at Stowe in Buckinghamshire and/or if thought desirable of other schools in England or Wales which shall provide education in accordance with the Protestant Principles of the Church of England and ancillary or incidental educational activities and associated activities for the benefit of the public; and/or3.2 The support of the provision of education in accordance with the aforesaid Principles at Colleges or Universities in England and Wales

Grants received

1 grant · £25,000 total

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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.

4.8y median 4.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure
14.8y
average years in governance
20
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 21Education/training 21Environment/conservation/heritage 20The 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 42Property 13Finance 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£53.6m 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.

16.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 20.9 in 2021

786 from 735 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
310639
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20/01/1923AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/09/1951AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/06/1980NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 26/09/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24 SEP 2016 as amended on 06 Oct 2020
Companies House
Company number 00187251 · Active
Contact on the register
01280818222 · schooladministrator@stowe.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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