MAYFIELD SCHOOL LTD

Registered charity 1047503 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST. LEONARDS-MAYFIELD SCHOOL

Secondary boarding/day school for girls providing an education founded in the Catholic tradition

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £640,077 for the year ended 31 August 2025, following a net loss in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted funds of £7.6 million, though it notes it has no free reserves as defined by the Charities SORP due to the exclusion of fixed assets financed by long-term liabilities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £110,001 - £120,000 (FY2024) to £120,001 - £130,000 (FY2025).

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

Inspection and regulatory ratings

Matched to this charity by name; verify provider identity on the regulator’s site.

• Ofsted — Mayfield School: Inadequate (NULL) · Ofsted
• Ofsted — Mayfield School: Requires improvement (NULL) · Ofsted
• Ofsted — Mayfield School: NULL (NULL) · Ofsted
• Ofsted — Mayfield School: NULL (NULL) · Ofsted
• Ofsted — Mayfield School: NULL (NULL) · Ofsted
• Ofsted — Mayfield School: NULL (NULL) · Ofsted

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Deborah Bligh — Headmistress (source)

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £515k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Larsson
• Angela Drew
• Caroline Frances Wood BSc Hons
• Christopher John Buxton
• Deirdre Elizabeth Rowe
• Dr Luminata Adaku Henshaw
• Dr Veronica Maria Cloke Browne
• Elizabeth Anne Slater
• John Richmond McConnell
• Marion Diane McGovern
• Rev William John Dickson
• Timothy Martin Charles Reid LLB

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MAYFIELD GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRAVESEND.

• MAYFIELD GRAMMAR SCHOOL GRAVESEND income £488k
• MAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL LIMITED income £5.4m
• HALLFIELD SCHOOL TRUST income £7.8m
• CROSFIELDS SCHOOL income £13.8m
• MILLFIELD income £70.7m
• THE MAYFIELD VALLEY ARTS TRUST income £110k

Side by side with its peers

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