RISHWORTH SCHOOL

Registered charity 1115562 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RISHWORTH SCHOOL LIMITED

The operation of a day and boarding school for boys and girls aged 3-18 years in Rishworth, West Yorkshire

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £442,895 for the year ended 31 August 2025, driven by increased employment costs and the removal of business rates relief. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were in a surplus position of £55,225, which remains below the Governors' stated target of £2.0 million. The charity maintains a strong cash position of £2.2 million and has secured a funding facility to support its strategic recovery plan.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Streets Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Tim Bayley — Head of Rishworth School (source)
• Mr Ray O'Toole — Chair of Governors (source)
• Kathryn De Ferrer — Deputy Head, DSL & Head of Boarding (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)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 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 ~3.5 months of spending — below the median 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE REVEREND CANON HILARY BARBERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Barrie Haley Moore
• Elisa Davies
• Joanne Kaye
• MAXINE GARBETT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Oliver Handley
• Raymond O'Toole

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

Operates in: Calderdale · Kirklees · Lancashire · Oldham · Rochdale

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• OSWESTRY SCHOOL income £9.8m
• WEST YORKSHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL income £269k
• OUR LADY OF SION SCHOOL, WORTHING income £4.0m
• THE MOUNT SCHOOL (YORK) income £4.3m
• WESTVILLE HOUSE SCHOOL income £1.3m
• RYDES HILL SCHOOL GUILDFORD income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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