LANCING COLLEGE LIMITED

Registered charity 1076483 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of Education

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Latest income

£33.0m

Latest spending

£31.5m

Registered

1999

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group reported a net surplus of £1,577k for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £16,585k. However, the trustees note a free reserve deficit of £4,514k, illustrating the extent of investment in tangible fixed assets used for charitable activities. The directors consider the charity to be in a solid financial position, supported by stable cash flows from full student rolls and strong bank support, despite facing future challenges from VAT on fees and loss of rates relief.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: reinvestment surpluses of not less than 10% of income before depreciation (held: £16.6m)

“The intention is to plan in the medium term for reinvestment surpluses of not less than 10% of income before depreciation and after the costs of development, refurbishment and other improvements.” — page 29

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: Lancing College Enterprises Limited

“The company owns the whole of the share capital of Lancing College Enterprises Ltd (formerly Buxbrass Limited), which lets the school premises and facilities.” — page 51

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Dr Scott Crawford — Head Master (source)
Kirsty Keep — Head Mistress (source)
Francesca Milling — Head (source)
Sarah Sutherland-Booth — Headmistress (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 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

£33.0m

Total spending

£31.5m

Cost of raising funds

£3.0m

Reserves (reported)

£16.6m

Employees

566

Reported reserves equal ~6.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% 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: 9.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Amanda Meyrick
David Poole · trustee of 1 other charity
Dr Fancisco Javier Calvar Fernandez
Dr John Aitken Scott
Jason Hunter
Justin Higgo
Karine Ahton
Pippa Cleeve
Professor Michael Farthing
Robert Crawford Clarke · trustee of 1 other charity
Rt Hon the Lord Gregory Barker of Battle
Rt Revd JONATHAN MEYRICK · trustee of 2 other charities
Siobhan Denning · trustee of 1 other charity
Timothy Hancock
Yasmin Mangalji

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£33.0m	£31.5m
31/08/2024	£31.3m	£30.4m
31/08/2023	£29.6m	£28.6m
31/08/2022	£26.3m	£25.5m
31/08/2021	£22.8m	£23.0m

Common questions

Is LANCING COLLEGE LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Group reported a net surplus of £1,577k for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £16,585k. However, the trustees note a free reserve deficit of £4,514k, illustrating the extent of investment in tangible fixed assets used for charitable activities. The directors consider the charity to be in a solid financial position, supported by stable cash flows from full student rolls and strong bank support, despite facing future challenges from VAT on fees and loss of rates relief. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Moore Kingston Smith 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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
JOHN JACKSON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£320

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LANCING COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT WORTHING LIMITED.

LANCING COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT WORTHING LIMITED income £2.5m
LONDON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS STUDIES income £1.9m
COLLEGE FRANCAIS BILINGUE DE LONDRES LTD income £11.1m
THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT income £1.1m
LEICESTER HIGH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
LANCING COLLEGE LIMITED	£33.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
LANCING COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT WORTHING LIMITED FY2025	£2.5m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
LONDON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS STUDIES FY2025	£1.9m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
COLLEGE FRANCAIS BILINGUE DE LONDRES LTD FY2025	£11.1m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£4.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT FY2025	£1.1m	£90,001 - £100,000	—	above	—	no doubt

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