WARMINSTER SCHOOL

Registered charity 1042204 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £654,206 for the year ended 31 August 2025, driven by a reduction in pupil numbers and rising employment costs. Unrestricted reserves decreased to £5.3 million, and the charity faces a material uncertainty regarding its ability to continue as a going concern due to a breach of bank loan covenants and reliance on a strategic plan to relocate its Prep School.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Property (HM Land Registry)

15 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (13 freehold); recorded price paid £160k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Martin
• Beverley Sunderland
• CAROLINE DRENNAN
• CHARLES GOODBODY
• Caroline Whitehead
• DIANA MILLER · trustee of 3 other charities
• Duncan James Wilson
• Giles Henry Ritson Vallis · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Woolsey
• Michael Thompson
• Timothy Lewis
• Tyrone Urch

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Dorset · Hampshire · Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BLUNDELL'S SCHOOL.

• BLUNDELL'S SCHOOL income £19.5m
• DURSTON HOUSE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £6.9m
• WELLINGTON SCHOOL 1837 income £18.3m
• BURY MANOR SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED (DORSET HOUSE SCHOOL) income £2.3m
• CHARTERS-ANCASTER COLLEGE (1995) income £1.4m
• LANCING COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT WORTHING LIMITED income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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