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Registered charity · Cheltenham

Cheltenham College and Cheltenham College Preparatory School

  • 17 trustees
  • Income £42m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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
Gloucestershire
Website
www.cheltenhamcollege.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£42m£38m
  • 2024£39m£38m
  • 2023£36m£35m
Earlier years
  • 2022£33m£31m
  • 2021£29m£28m
Charitable objects

FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING AN EFFICIENT COURSE OF EDUCATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO AND INCLUDING THE AGE OF 20 YEARS COMPRISING RELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTRUCTION IN STRICT CONFORMITY WITH THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH, THE GREEK, LATIN AND MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE, HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, MATHEMATICS AND SUCH OTHER BRANCHES OF KNOWLEDGE AS MAY BE FOUND PRACTICABLE AND ADVANTAGEOUS TO INTRODUCE.

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.

17 trustees on the board

4.7y median 3y
average tenure
19y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (3)

0
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 17

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • 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£41.7m 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.

21.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 28.1 in 2021

654 from 576 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
311720
Status
Registered
Governing document
ACT OF PARLIAMENT DATED 20TH JULY 1894 AS AMENDED BY STATUTORY INSTRUMENT DATED 29 OCTOBER 1976 AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 21 DEC 2010 AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION 27 NOV 2021 AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 29 JULY 2026
Contact on the register
01242265600 · reception@cheltenhamcollege.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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