King's Schools Taunton Ltd

Analysis

King's Schools Taunton Ltd is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Taunton. It was registered in April 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05084301). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, King's Schools Taunton Ltd reported income of £16.8m and spending of £18.1m, spending 108% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £14.6m to £16.8m (+15%), an average of +3.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, King's Schools Taunton Ltd sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hughes Hall in the University of Cambridge (£16.7m), Tudor Hall School (£16.8m) and St Anne's College in the University of Oxford (£16.6m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 90%, trading 6.4%, donations and legacies 2.1% and investments 1.4%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £38k. Charitable activities took 97% of spending and raising funds 1.9%. It employed 320 people.