Cowbridge School Trust

The trust income is paid to the Sir Thomas Mansel Franklen Trust which provides special benefits over and above that provided by the Local Education Authority to Cowbridge Comprehensive School and may provide grants to pupils and former pupils. Trust land remaining is held to be used for the purposes of the School.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Vale of Glamorgan

Area of benefit in its governing document: The Catchment Area of Cowbridge Comprehensive School

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £165,229 and spent £283,747.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 198%, from £55,528 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £165,229 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 172% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

7 trustees run the charity.

• Geoffrey Bennett ReedAppointed 24 June 2024
• Hilary DrewAppointed 12 May 2014
• Katherine Elizabeth KennedyAppointed 14 December 2022
• Morgan SmithAppointed 9 December 2025
• Sarah SmithAppointed 12 May 2014
• Steven Robert BlackmanAppointed 1 April 2017
• Terrie Vaughan-TaylorAppointed 28 March 2023

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 4 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

525559

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

24 November 1966

Governing document

SCHEME DATED 09 OCT 1919AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 18 OCT 1951AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 09 MAR 1983AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 17 AUG 2001AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 17 DEC 2014AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 28 FEB 2020AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 01 JUL 2025

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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