Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 4
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Good Reserves: +1Pension deficit: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

THE KYNGE'S COLLEGE OF OUR LADYE OF ETON BESYDE WINDESORE

Eton College was founded by Henry VI in 1440. Today it is an independent boys' boarding school whose charitable purpose is the advancement of education by the provision, support and conduct of a school and ancillary or incidental educational activities for the benefit of students and/or the wider community; and the preservation and maintenance of the College's historic buildings and Collections.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end but unrestricted reserves are available
  • There is a pension deficit of £2,836,000
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/08/23£91,268£101,087£-9,819£6,382£538,848£194,60123.11,15634
31/08/22£100,368£102,578£-2,210£9,897£562,130£185,48521.71,10738
31/08/21£84,951£86,393£-1,442£8,785£542,406£11,9711.71,05521
31/08/20£77,979£83,421£-5,442£6,302£453,204£132,191191,01920
31/08/19£76,252£79,783£-3,531£5,574£444,173£128,21819.31,00512
31/08/18£73,150£78,055£-4,905£4,563£437,171£135,96720.99950
31/08/17£73,378£74,907£-1,529£5,764£415,150£133,84021.49830
31/08/16£62,833£66,251£-3,418£3,747£373,983£121,82922.19810
31/08/15£67,151£60,488£6,663£1,652£370,317£130,15625.86460
31/08/14£61,927£58,701£3,226£3,039£344,456£120,02824.56600
31/08/13£55,750£55,381£369£3,220£314,423£107,93523.46580
31/08/12£60,293£51,398£8,895£2,321£290,055£98,697236540
31/08/11£59,491£60,343£-852£11,102£249,652£18,2843.66540

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 20.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 11.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 30%
Highest pay band: £350,000-£400,000
Liabilities/Assets: 26%
Liabilities/Income: 211%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 36%
Reserves/Spending: 23.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -0 months
Quick Ratio: 0.4
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 14 years

www.etoncollege.com

clerk@etoncollege.org.uk

01753370542

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Secondary schools
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Windsor And Maidenhead,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Eton College
£60,000 03/07/2023
Funding to endow in perpetuity one pupil's place at a new free school to be opened in Middlesbrough by Eton College in partnership with Star Academies.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • BARONESS HELENA MORRISSEY Appointed: 2018
  • FRANCIS CLEMENT SAIS BROWN PHD Appointed: 2022
  • HAROLD NSAMBA MATOVU KC Appointed: 2024
  • JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM BIRNEY PHD Appointed: 2022
  • MARK ESIRI Appointed: 2016
  • PETER JOHN MCKEE Appointed: 2021
  • PROFESSOR MICHAEL PROCTOR Appointed: 2024
  • SIR MARK LYALL GRANT Appointed: 2017
  • SIMON PETER VIVIAN Appointed: 2021
  • SIR NICHOLAS DAVID COLERIDGE (Chair) Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 18/11/2010, number: 1139086
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Fundraising Regulator
First registered: 09/01/2016, current status: Large charity (levy paid)
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
13 returns made; all on time
Main office

THE BURSARY
ETON COLLEGE
WINDSOR
SL4 6DJ

Objectives

A. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION, SUPPORT AND CONDUCT OF A SCHOOL KNOWN AS ETON COLLEGE AND BY ANCILLARY OR INCIDENTAL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND OTHER ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING THE CONDUCT OF SERVICES IN ITS CHAPEL OR CHAPELS) FOR THE BENEFIT OF STUDENTS (BEING PERSONS ENROLLED ON A COURSE OF STUDY PROVIDED BY ETON COLLEGE AND / OR THE WIDER COMMUNITY; AND IN SO FAR AS IT IS NOT INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE OBJECT SET OUT IN A ABOVE: B. TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, THE PRESERVATION, MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT AND REPAIR OF: (A) THE BUILDINGS AND FABRIC OF ETON COLLEGE (INCLUDING THE CHAPELS OF THE COLLEGE) WHICH ARE OF ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC IMPORTANCE; AND (B) THE FURNITURE, PICTURES AND CHATTELS OF ANY DESCRIPTION HAVING HISTORIC OR ARTISTIC INTEREST CONNECTED WITH THE COLLEGE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WINDSOR AND MAIDENHEAD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
Charizone

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