LALEHAM LEA SCHOOL

Registered charity 1118598 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objects of the charitable company per its memorandum are to advance the Roman Catholic religion by the conduct of a Roman Catholic School or schools and by any ancillary or religious activities for the benefit of the public.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION BY THE CONDUCT OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS AND BY ANY ANCILLARY RELIGIOUS OR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE SURREY

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 recorded a surplus of £33,110 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £942,796. The governors' report indicates that the school carries minimal free reserves and intends to retain modest reserves in the order of three to six months of operating costs. The independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is 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 Affinia (Orpington). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mrs. M Reece — 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)

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): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mary Elizabeth Ryanchair
• Dr Mary Elizabeth Howard
• Eamonn O'Domhnaill · trustee of 1 other charity
• Father Peter Mario Luciano Sebastian
• Yvonne Tiki Epale

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

Operates in: Croydon

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEEDS DIOCESAN TRUST.

• LEEDS DIOCESAN TRUST income £13.3m
• THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS TRUST income £9.8m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALL SAINTS' LALEHAM income £375k
• FARLEIGH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £11.7m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF LECHLADE income £467k
• ARCHANGE LEBRUN TRUST LIMITED income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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