ARDINGLY COLLEGE LIMITED

Registered charity 1076456 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ARDINGLY COLLEGE

Independent Education for boys and girls Aged 2-18

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £34.5m, with unrestricted funds at £33.3m, supported by a surplus on charitable activities of £1.2m. The trustees report that the group is able to continue operating for the foreseeable future, citing encouraging pupil demand and a strategy to share VAT burdens with parents.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alastair Tighe — Head of Ardingly College (source)
• Ben Figgis — Head of Ardingly College (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Royal National Children’s Springboard Foundation — “At Ardingly we currently have a number of students on transformational bursaries through our partnership with the Royal National Children’s …” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (5,914 followers) · instagram (5,861 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 5.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Foster
• Eloise Francis
• Felix Kempf
• Freddie Nuttall
• Georgina Holmes
• Guy Dixon
• Jayne Adams
• Madeleine Copin
• Richard Sutlow
• Russell Davis
• SIAN CHAMPKIN LLB
• Sophie Bradshaw
• Stephen Adrian Holliday
• Vari Cameron

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HURSTPIERPOINT COLLEGE LIMITED.

• HURSTPIERPOINT COLLEGE LIMITED income £40.3m
• ST EDMUND'S SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £17.3m
• EASTBOURNE COLLEGE (INCORPORATED) income £28.1m
• TRENT COLLEGE LIMITED income £19.8m
• BRIGHTON COLLEGE income £80.7m
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SCHOOL income £36.3m

Side by side with its peers

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