The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Rugby School

Registered charity 528752 Registered since 1971

Operates: Warwickshire

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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.

3.1y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (5)

5
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 11General Charitable Purposes 2Disability 1The 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.

Retail and trade 6Business services 5Education 5

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£57.0m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

12.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 20.1 in 2021

774 from 684 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.
1%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

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.

Related organisations

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.rugbyschool.co.uk
Emailbursary@rugbyschool.net
Phone01788556260
AddressRugby School Bursary, 10 Little Church Street, Rugby, CV21 3AW

Finances

£56,986,000 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£41,030,000£41,962,000
2022£45,117,000£46,182,000
2023£50,742,000£53,159,000
2024£54,512,000£59,377,000
2025£56,986,000£63,565,000

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

Children/young People

How

Provides Services

Charitable objects

THE PROVISION OF A BROAD LIBERAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AT A BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL AT RUGBY ("RUGBY SCHOOL") FOR CHILDREN FROM RUGBY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD AND ELSEWHERE, AND BY ANCILLARY OR INCIDENTAL ACTIVITIES AND OTHER ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY.

Governing document: STATUTES DATED 21 JULY 2010 MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACT 1868

Trustees (11)

11trustees
58median age
0aged 70+

Connected charities (5)

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