THE HAMPSTEAD SCHOOL OF ART

Registered charity 1072327 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The school provides scholarships to young people who wish to apply as candidates to art colleges who would not be able to fund their own courses. The students join our pre-foundation course - our first scholarship student is now studying jewellery making at Sir John Cass College - We hope to increase the number of scholarships as additional funds become available.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets increased from £1,158,628 in 2024 to £1,226,369 in 2025, driven by growth in unrestricted funds. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £858,984 against restricted funds of £367,385. No specific reserves policy target is disclosed in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03015275

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Hampstead School Of Art (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SIMPSON, Julia — director, appointed 17/02/2022not on trustee list
• AUBURY, Nicolette Chloe Michel — director, appointed 15/09/2014on trustee list
• LANGTRY, Isabel — secretary, appointed 30/05/2017

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £1.1m. 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 ~9.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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: 6.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cynthia Barlow
• Nicolette Aubury
• REGINALD BOORER

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• HAMPTON SCHOOL income £35.7m
• HAMPSTEAD THEATRE LIMITED income £6.0m
• CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON ART SCHOOL LIMITED income £4.1m
• ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL (HAMPSTEAD) LIMITED income £5.5m
• WESTMINSTER SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP AND BURSARY FUND income £414k
• THE CHILDRENS ART SCHOOL income £185k

Side by side with its peers

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