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Registered charity · Bushey

The Purcell School

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £9.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Hertfordshire
Website
www.purcell-school.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Purcell School(the)
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.2m£8.4m
  • 2024£7.6m£8.5m
  • 2023£6.9m£7.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.7m£7.2m
  • 2021£6.3m£6.5m
Charitable objects

TO ESTABLISH AND CONDUCT A SCHOOL FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING GENERAL EDUCATION FOR PUPILS PURSUING MUSCIAL STUDIES

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.

8 trustees on the board

3.5y median 3.5y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
11.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (3)

8
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 8Education/training 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 10Business services 3Other services 3

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£9.2m 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.

16.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 22.1 in 2021

172 from 159 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
312855
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 30 APRIL 1963 AS AMENDED 6 JUNE 1984 AND 29 FEBRUARY 1984
Companies House
Company number 00759327 · Active
Contact on the register
01923331100 · info@purcell-school.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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