Effingham Schools Trust

Registered charity 1095103 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST TERESA'S SCHOOL, ST. TERESA'S SCHOOL EFFINGHAM TRUST

The education of children and such other charitable works as advance the Roman Catholic religion.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust reported a net movement in funds of £(560,573) for the year ended 31 August 2025, driven by policy changes including the introduction of VAT on school fees. Per the trustees' report, total unrestricted reserves stood at £15.9 million, largely represented by land and buildings, with the Trust maintaining sufficient unrestricted reserves to meet short-term obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Annabel Charles — Director of Admissions (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)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 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)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Damian James Honeychair
• Annette Marie Turner
• Ashley McLucas
• David Peter Austin Williams
• Geraldine Sims-Brassett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Helga Young · trustee of 1 other charity
• Margaret Mary Kieran
• Rev Paul Thompson
• Sally Elizabeth Hayes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Walker

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OLD ETONIAN TRUST(THE).

• OLD ETONIAN TRUST(THE) income £422k
• CHEAM SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £9.0m
• BEACHBOROUGH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £7.3m
• THE ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL TRUST income £2.2m
• THE CHURCH SCHOOLS OF CAMBRIDGE (THE OLD SCHOOLS) income £378k
• CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS LIMITED income £4.5m

Side by side with its peers

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