The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Clifton High School

Registered charity 311736 Registered since 1964

Operates: North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bristol City

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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.

9 trustees on the board

5.6y median 6.5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

17.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

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 9Arts/culture/heritage/science 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 27Professional services 3Property 3

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • 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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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£13.0m 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.

7.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.7 in 2021

194 from 140 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.cliftonhigh.co.uk
Emailenquiries@cliftonhigh.bristol.sch.uk
Phone01179733853
AddressCLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE ROAD, CLIFTON, BRISTOL, BS8 3JD

Finances

£12,967,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£7,976,000£7,645,000
2022£9,383,000£8,834,000
2023£11,092,000£10,795,000
2024£12,530,000£12,222,000
2025£12,967,000£13,221,000

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

Children/young PeopleThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Services

Charitable objects

The Company’s object is for the benefit of the public to advance the education of the pupils at Clifton High School, Bristol or elsewhere by providing and/or assisting in the provision of facilities for education in such ways as the Council Members think fit from time to time including by carrying on or managing any Subsidiary, or affiliated or other schools (“Objects”).

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 12/09/1877AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/02/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/11/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/10/2012 as amended on 11 Mar 2025

Trustees (9)

9trustees
60median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Clifton High School · 00011701 · Active

PRIV LTD SECT. 30 (Private limited company, section 30 of the Companies Act) · incorporated 12/09/1877

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (2)

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