St Paul's Waldorf School

Registered charity 1076454 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q66228118 · also known as ST. PAULS STEINER PROJECT TWO, St. Paul's Steiner School

We operate the St. Paul's Steiner School in the former St. Paul's Church in Islington where children are educated from the age of 3 till 14 years. The objective is to advance the education of the public based on the researches and philosophy of Rudolf Steiner.

Objects

3. Objects 3.1 The objects of the Charity are, for the public benefit,:- 3.1.1 to promote and provide for the advancement of education of the public based upon the researches and philosophy of the late Rudolf Steiner and in connection therewith to conduct in the United Kingdom any boarding or day school or schools for the education of children in so far as is consistent with the running of such school and its charitable purposes to make the use of the premises available as an educational resource to the community; 3.1.2 to provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances with the object of improving their conditions of life.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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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Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus and free unrestricted reserves of £866,393, which are above the stated policy target of £500,000. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to continue in operational existence with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Simpson Wreford LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03622628

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ms Stephanie Göebel — Chair of College (source)
• Ms Anna Retsler — Head Teacher (source)
• Mrs Tamara Allen — Administration & HR Manager (source)
• Mr Ashad Auckburally — School Business Manager (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.

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.

• BONTOI, Alexandru — director, appointed 04/09/2025on trustee list
• DE KEYSER, Pia — director, appointed 04/09/2025not on trustee list
• TELLE NAKATA, Anakin — director, appointed 03/09/2024not on trustee list
• SILVER, Tal Esther — director, appointed 17/04/2024on trustee list
• AUCKBURALLY, Ashad — secretary, appointed 13/06/2022

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexandru Bontoi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anakin Telle Nakata · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jens Munch · trustee of 1 other charity
• Pia De Keyser · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tal Esther Silver · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Islington

Income and spending

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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 St Paul's Waldorf School Building.

• St Paul's Waldorf School Building income £191k
• ST PAUL'S PRESCHOOL income £165k
• YORK STEINER SCHOOL LIMITED income £1.5m
• ST PAUL'S SCHOOLS FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• ELMFIELD RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL LIMITED income £2.4m
• THE PAULINE MEETINGS income £109k

Side by side with its peers

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