Charitable status
At the GDST our commitment to education is at the heart of our charitable status. Our duty is, and will continue to be, to our current and future students, not unaccountable shareholders. All our income is reinvested in our schools for the benefit of the students.

We aim to maximise our impact as a charity by restating our commitment to access, delivered through a range of approaches, including partnerships, bursaries and a sensitive fee policy.

We work to ensure a stable financial base so that we can continue to provide high quality educational opportunities into the next century, as we have for the past 130 years.

We provide the range and level of public benefits that you would expect from one of the largest UK educational charities.

Charitable objects

In order to continue to develop in a rapidly-changing world, the GDST took the decision a few years ago to update its charitable objects.

Our current objects are:

To advance the education of young people (principally girls, but, where the council thinks fit, also boys) by such means as the council shall determine and in particular by the provision of:

• Schools in the United Kingdom and elsewhere;
  
  
• Services (including support services) to other educational charities, schools and institutions;
  
  
• Other ancillary or incidental educational activities; and
  
  
• Other associated activities for the benefit of the community.