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Registered charity · Chester

King's School

  • 15 trustees
  • Income £18m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Amateur Sport, Recreation
Where
Cheshire East, Cheshire West & Chester
Website
www.kingschester.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£18m£17m
  • 2024£18m£16m
  • 2023£16m£15m
Earlier years
  • 2022£15m£14m
  • 2021£14m£13m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE PROVISION AND CONDUCT OF A DAY SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND GIRLS KNOWN AS THEKING’S SCHOOL IN OR NEAR CHESTER IN CONNECTION WITH THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH ATCHESTER; AND/ORTHE ESTABLISHMENT, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF ANY OTHER SCHOOL OF BOYSAND/OR GIRLS ANYWHERE IN ENGLAND AND WALES, IN EACH CASE DIRECTLY OR THROUGH ANYCOMPANY, PARTNERSHIP OR CORPORATE STRUCTURE; AND/ORTHE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BY THE PROVISION OF ANCILLARYOR INCIDENTAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN OR NEAR CHESTER (AND/ORANYWHERE ELSE IN ENGLAND AND WALES).

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.

15 trustees on the board

3.8y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (1)

3
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 15Amateur Sport 14Recreation 14Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Religious Activities 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.

Health and social care 3Other services 3Arts and leisure 2

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£17.8m 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.

0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 15.0 in 2021

244 from 232 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
525934
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME DATED 13/07/1988AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 28/01/2003AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 27 APR 2017AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 19 MAR 2021
Contact on the register
01244 689559 · bursar@kingschester.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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