THE HELLENIC EDUCATIONAL & CULTURAL TRUST OF FINCHLEY

Registered charity 1071271 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HECT

The charity operates the Independent Greek School of Finchley, based at The Compton School, Summers Lane, London, N12 0QG.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS IN GREEK LANGUAGE, HISTORY AND CULTURE, PARTICULARLY, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, BY THE PROVISION OF A SCHOOL IN FINCHLEY.

Area of benefit: FINCHLEY

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £10,887 for the year, driven by fundraising income that offset a significant operating deficit from school activities. The trustees note that tuition fees are significantly lower than running costs and that the charity relies on fundraising to continue its operations. Reserves have increased to £91,741, which the trustees intend to build further to cover one year of running costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Solomou · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Georghiou
• Lambros Hadjiioannou

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

Operates in: Barnet

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INDEPENDENT GREEK EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BARNET.

• INDEPENDENT GREEK EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BARNET income £345k
• FINCHLEY JEWISH PRIMARY SCHOOL TRUST income £557k
• HILDEN OAKS SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £2.5m
• HALLFIELD SCHOOL TRUST income £7.8m
• HINCHLEY WOOD SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT FUND income £123k
• ST NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX EDUCATIONAL CENTRE income £118k

Side by side with its peers

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