Mayfield Grammar School Gravesend

Analysis

Mayfield Grammar School Gravesend is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Gravesend. It was registered in January 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, arts/culture/heritage/science and amateur sport, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Mayfield Grammar School Gravesend reported income of £488k and spending of £555k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £90k to £488k (+441%), an average of +52% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 218%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Mayfield Grammar School Gravesend sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include School Library Association (£487k), Wessex Museums Trust (£488k) and Keswick Museum and Art Gallery Management Limited (£487k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.