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Registered charity · Cheshire

The Ryleys School Limited

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £3.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Cheshire East, Cheshire West & Chester
Website
www.theryleys.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Ryleys School Limited
Registered
1967

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.3m£3.2m
  • 2024£3.0m£3.2m
  • 2023£2.8m£2.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.5m£2.5m
  • 2021£2.3m£2.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN CONNECTION THEREWITH TO CONDUCT AND CARRY ON RESIDENTIAL OR NON-RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS IN WHICH BOYS, OR, IF THOUGHT FIT, BOYS AND GIRLS, MAY RECEIVE A SOUND GENERAL EDUCATION AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO ACQUIRE AND CARRY ON THE RYLEYS SCHOOL, A PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR BOYS IN THE PREMISES AT PRESENT OCCUPIED BY THE SCHOOL OR ELSEWHERE. 2. TO ACQUIRE, ESTABLISH, PROVIDE AND CARRY ON OTHER SCHOOLS

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.

6 trustees on the board

6.8y median 6y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (4)

6
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 6Amateur Sport 4

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 15Arts and leisure 5Finance 4

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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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£3.3m 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.

1.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.7 in 2021

62 from 54 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
525915
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 3RD JANUARY, 1967 NOW ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 6 NOVEMBER 2009.
Companies House
Company number 00895208 · Active
Contact on the register
01625583241 · K.WATSON@THERYLEYS.COM
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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