SEVENOAKS PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 1100021 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPS CHARITABLE TRUST

To carry on in Great Britain schools at or by means of which students may obtain educational instruction in languages mathematics geography and history and all other subjects whatsoever that may be included in a commercial, technical, scientific, classical or academic education.

Objects

TO ESTABLISH AND CARY ON IN GREAT BRITAIN (AND ANY OTHER COUNTRIES) SCHOOLS AT OR BY MEANS OF WHICH STUDENTS MAY OBTAIN EDUCATION AND INSTRUCTIONS IN LANGUAGES, MATHEMATICS, GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY, AND ALL OTHER SUBJECTS WHATSOEVER THAT MAY BE INCLUDED IN A COMMERCIAL, TECHNICAL, SCIENTIFIC, CLASSICAL OR ACADEMIC EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: IN GREAT BRITAIN (AND ANY OTHER COUNTRIES).

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £157,543 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £5,726,629. The governors consider the assets and operation of the School sufficient to maintain its obligations in full, and the independent auditors reported no material uncertainties regarding the entity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sevenoaks Preparatory School (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Luke Harrison — Head (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)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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 · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~12.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kevin Rushchair
• Alex Durtnell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Arabella Stuart · trustee of 1 other charity
• JANETTE SUSAN BERRY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kate Wheaton · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR E OATLEY · trustee of 3 other charities
• Mr Simon Bailey
• Tiffany Hornshaw

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• SEVENOAKS SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £5.5m
• COLLEGE FRANCAIS BILINGUE DE LONDRES LTD income £11.1m
• LONDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LTD income £1.6m
• ACF SEVENOAKS income £399k
• THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES income £1.8m
• Dulwich Prep & Senior income £18.4m

Side by side with its peers

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