NEWBRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 1019682 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Education of girls up to age 11 and boys of up to the age of 7.

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Latest income
£1.5m
Latest spending
£1.5m
Registered
1993
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned to a small unrestricted surplus of £12,024 for the year ended 31 August 2025, following losses in the previous two years. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,285,680, with a policy to build up reserves to allow efficient operation from cash balances. Forecasts confirm that measures taken to mitigate the impact of new VAT and cost increases are effective.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: continue to build up reserves to allow the school to operate efficiently from its cash balances (held: £1.3m)
“The policy is to continue to build up reserves to allow the school to operate efficiently from its cash balances.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Lawton Bradford Accountants Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Total income
£1.5m
Total spending
£1.5m
Reserves (reported)
£1.3m
Employees
41

Reported reserves equal ~10.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Shropshire · Staffordshire · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£1.5m£1.5m
31/08/2024£1.4m£1.5m
31/08/2023£1.2m£1.4m
31/08/2022£1.3m£1.3m
31/08/2021£1.2m£1.2m

Common questions

Is NEWBRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity returned to a small unrestricted surplus of £12,024 for the year ended 31 August 2025, following losses in the previous two years. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,285,680, with a policy to build up reserves to allow efficient operation from cash balances. Forecasts confirm that measures taken to mitigate the impact of new VAT and cost increases are effective. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Lawton Bradford Accountants Limited.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
BEAULAND LIMITED1£101k
THE CATHERINE COOKSON CHARITABLE TRUST1£50k
THE AA TRUST1£6k
THE GROCERS' CHARITY1£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NEWCASTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
NEWBRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED£1.5m——unclear—no doubt
THE NEWCASTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£3.5m——unclear—no doubt
THE NEW GIRLS SCHOOL FY2025£1.9mUnder £60,0000unclear—noted
GATEWAYS EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£8.7m——unclear—no doubt
NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL (NORWICH) LIMITED FY2025£1.2m£60,001 - £70,0002below—no doubt
NEWCASTLE SCHOOL FOR BOYS FY2025£5.7m——below—material uncertainty

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.