ST JOHN'S SCHOOL

Registered charity 1063738 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of Schooling

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Latest income
£5.8m
Latest spending
£5.9m
Registered
1997
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £64,882 for the year ended 31 August 2025, a decrease from the previous year's £575,388, driven by reduced pupil numbers and lower net fees. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £4,442,044, which is above the stated policy target of three months' non-discretionary expenditure (approximately £1,306,000). The auditors confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Inspection and regulatory ratings

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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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Total income
£5.8m
Total spending
£5.9m
Cost of raising funds
£15k
Reserves (reported)
£4.4m
Employees
83

Reported reserves equal ~9.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 0.3% 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: Hillingdon

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£5.8m£5.9m
31/08/2024£6.2m£5.9m
31/08/2023£5.8m£5.7m
31/08/2022£5.6m£5.4m
31/08/2021£5.2m£5.0m

Common questions

Is ST JOHN'S SCHOOL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £64,882 for the year ended 31 August 2025, a decrease from the previous year's £575,388, driven by reduced pupil numbers and lower net fees. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £4,442,044, which is above the stated policy target of three months' non-discretionary expenditure (approximately £1,306,000). The auditors confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Saffery LLP.

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
MERCHANT TAYLORS' EDUCATIONAL TRUST1£450k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ST JOHN'S SCHOOL£5.8m——unclear—no doubt
THE ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL TRUST FY2025£2.2m——above—no doubt
YARM SCHOOL FY2025£19.0m£150,001 - £160,000—unclear—no doubt
STOVER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION FY2025£8.8m——above—no doubt
MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL FY2025£31.8m——unclear80.0%no doubt
ST JOHNS AND HIGHWOODS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LTD FY2025£427kUnder £60,0000unclear—no doubt

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