Heartwood House

Registered charity 1109947 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RED BALLOON LEARNER CENTRE NW LONDON, RED BALLOON NW LONDON

Advancing the education of students aged 9 to 18 being students who are the victim of bullying or by reason of other emotional trauma or illness are unable to attend mainstream school by providing tuition and appropriate support for them in a safe learning environment until they are ready to return to mainstream education and employment.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £351,843, increasing its total reserves to £1,455,129. The trustees report a reserves policy of six months' operating costs, noting that the actual reserve level reached 7.8 months at year-end. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MWS Accountants Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Geraldine Norris DL — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Thomas Webster — Vice Chair (source)
• Chris Seymour — Executive Headteacher (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)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £2.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Geraldine Amy Norrischair
• ANNA JESSIE LENTON
• James Iain Storey · trustee of 1 other charity
• KEVIN BARR
• RICHARD HOWARD EVANS · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIMON JONES
• THOMAS WEBSTER

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

Operates in: Brent · Buckinghamshire · Camden · Ealing · Harrow · Hertfordshire · Hillingdon · Islington

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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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 RED HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED.

• RED HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £4.9m
• Nurture Education Trust Ltd income £1.4m
• HEART WOOD income £124k
• WEST HOUSE SCHOOL income £4.1m
• RED BALLOON LEARNER CENTRE CAMBRIDGE income £1.2m
• Forest School, London income £39.0m

Side by side with its peers

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