ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL GUILDFORD
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Next accounts due
2027-04-30 (in 11mo)
Last filed for 2025-07-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-07-03 (in 2mo)
Last made up 2025-06-19
Watchouts
Cash
£16M
-15% vs 2024
Net assets
£46M
+1.4% vs 2024
Employees
288
-1.4% vs 2024
Profit before tax
—
Period ending 2025-07-31
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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4 officer resignations in last 12 months
Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL GUILDFORD 2021-09-29 → present
- RGS AND LANESBOROUGH 2017-07-19 → 2021-09-29
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-07-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £27,260,000 | £26,135,000 | |
| Operating profit | £5,489,000 | £617,000 | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | |
| Net profit | £5,491,000 | £617,000 | |
| Cash | £18,363,000 | £15,608,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £49,870,000 | £48,670,000 | |
| Net assets | £44,927,000 | £45,544,000 | |
| Equity | £44,927,000 | £45,544,000 | |
| Average employees | 292 | 288 | |
| Wages | £13,434,000 | £13,616,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-07-31 | 2025-07-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 20.1% | 2.4% | |
| Net margin | 20.1% | 2.4% | |
| Return on capital employed | 11.0% | 1.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 24.5% | 19.7% | |
| Current ratio | 2.04x | 2.12x | |
| Interest cover | 51.78x | 1.94x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- HaysMac LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Group structure
- ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL GUILDFORD · parent
- RGS Guildford International Limited
- RGS Guildford International (Dubai) Limited
- RGS Guildford International (China) Limited
- RGS Guildford International (Oman) Limited
- RGS Guildford Enterprises Limited
Significant events
- “From January 2025, in response to the implementation of VAT on school fees, the School lowered the fee net of VAT so that the total fee payable by parents, including VAT, increased by 3% compared to Michaelmas 2024.”
- “A key strategic development is the decision to become a fully co-educational school from September 2027, announced in December 2025.”
- “On 17 July 2024 the operations, asset and liabilities of the Foundation were transferred to School at the best estimate of their fair value at the date of transfer. Since the merger the Foundation has no income, expenditure or net assets, and will be wound up in due course.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
19 active · 23 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHITHAM, Rebecca Frances | Secretary | 2025-05-15 | — | — |
| ATKINSON, Karen | Director | 2020-07-08 | Sep 1969 | British |
| BARROW, Peta-Anne | Director | 2024-10-01 | May 1973 | British |
| BUTLER, Simon, Canon | Director | 2024-03-18 | Nov 1964 | British |
| CARTER, Faye Emily | Director | 2022-03-21 | Feb 1981 | British |
| CREEDY, Sarah Kathleen | Director | 2017-07-19 | Jun 1963 | British |
| GIMSON, Simon George Stanford | Director | 2017-07-19 | Apr 1961 | British |
| HUMPHREYS, Matthew James, Professor | Director | 2019-07-10 | Apr 1969 | British |
| JENN-MCAULIFFE, Astrid | Director | 2025-10-15 | May 1966 | British,German |
| LINGARD, Thomas Edward | Director | 2020-12-08 | Sep 1977 | British |
| LINTON, Lorraine Susan Kendrick, Dr | Director | 2017-07-19 | Oct 1952 | British |
| MEREDITH, Stephen John | Director | 2022-12-05 | Apr 1966 | British |
| NELSON-SMITH, Nicola Katrin Vale | Director | 2019-03-26 | Apr 1968 | British,Swiss |
| NGWENA, Calvin Wright | Director | 2023-12-04 | Jul 1997 | British |
| ONSLOW, Rupert Charles William Bullard, Lord | Director | 2017-07-19 | Jun 1967 | British |
| SPASIC, Kristina | Director | 2021-12-13 | Jun 1979 | British |
| TREHARNE, Helen, Professor | Director | 2020-12-08 | Sep 1971 | British |
| VINEALL QC, Nicholas Edward John | Director | 2017-07-19 | May 1963 | British |
| WATERHOUSE, Robert Nicholas | Director | 2023-12-04 | Jun 1984 | British |
Show 23 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERCEVAL, Catherine Mary | Secretary | 2018-07-10 | 2025-03-24 |
| BARNETT, Clive Durac | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2021-12-13 |
| BILLINGTON, Richard John | Director | 2019-05-02 | 2019-05-06 |
| COBLEY, Catherine Frances | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2018-12-11 |
| COTTON, Robert Lloyd | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2023-05-24 |
| COUNSELL, David John | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2022-12-05 |
| CREESE, Brian Jeffrey | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2017-12-12 |
| CRITCHLOW, Christopher Allan, His Honour | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2019-12-08 |
| FAIRLEY, John David | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2023-12-04 |
| FELL, Patrick William | Director | 2017-12-12 | 2023-03-20 |
| JORDAN, Jennifer | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2018-12-11 |
| LOGUE, Mun-Ling | Director | 2019-03-26 | 2026-03-24 |
| MORE-MOLYNEUX, Michael | Director | 2023-01-05 | 2026-03-24 |
| PARSONS, Michael George Finnimore | Director | 2018-05-09 | 2019-05-02 |
| PEARSON, Henry James, Dr | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2019-12-08 |
| PEEL, Peter Graham | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2022-12-20 |
| PRICE, Shirley Christine, Professor | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2023-07-05 |
| SHORTER, Christopher Trevor | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2022-07-04 |
| SMITH, John Arthur | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2017-12-12 |
| STOTT, Julie Anne | Director | 2017-12-12 | 2020-12-08 |
| STYCHE-PATEL, Heather | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2025-10-15 |
| WEIR, Rachel | Director | 2017-07-19 | 2017-12-12 |
| WINDSOR, Michael John | Director | 2021-07-07 | 2025-12-08 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1509 Group | Corporate entity | voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-firm | 2017-07-19 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 70 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2025-06-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-03-25 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-02-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-12-12 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-29 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-10-29 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-07-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-05-15 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2025-04-22 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-10 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-10-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-06-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-26 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2024-01-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-12-27 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 9
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 4
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-07-31 vs 2024-07-31
-
Turnover
-4.1%
£27,260,000 £26,135,000
-
Cash
-15%
£18,363,000 £15,608,000
-
Net assets
+1.4%
£44,927,000 £45,544,000
-
Employees
-1.4%
292 288
-
Operating profit
-88.8%
£5,489,000 £617,000
-
Wages
+1.4%
£13,434,000 £13,616,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers