BRECKENBROUGH SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 1122269 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Breckenbrough is a school catering for boys aged 9 - 19 years. The students have a range of special needs some are Autistic , some have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or Attention Deficit Disorder and others have an unspecific designation of social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. All pupils are educated to at least GCSE level.

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Latest income

£5.9m

Latest spending

£5.6m

Registered

2008

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £322,847 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total funds increasing to £4,402,805. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, noting that cash is monitored day-to-day and longer term to meet future commitments. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,737,976, which are below the stated policy target of approximately £2,000,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 6 months of operating expenditure, which is approximately £2,000,000 (held: £1.7m)

“The target level of reserves is based on 6 months of operating expenditure, which is approximately £2,000,000.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Inspection and regulatory ratings

Matched to this charity by name; verify provider identity on the regulator’s site.

Ofsted — Breckenbrough School: Good (NULL) · Ofsted

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Simon Bannister — Headteacher (source)
Matt Halifax — Deputy Headteacher (source)
Stuart Edwards — Head of Social Education (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 (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Total income

£5.9m

Total spending

£5.6m

Cost of raising funds

£4k

Reserves (reported)

£1.7m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Digby Geoffrey Swift · trustee of 1 other charity
John Nicholas Margham
John Robert Siddle Littlefair
Lynne Ward

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£5.9m	£5.6m
31/08/2024	£5.2m	£5.2m
31/08/2023	£5.0m	£4.6m
31/08/2022	£4.9m	£4.2m
31/08/2021	£4.9m	£4.1m

Common questions

Is BRECKENBROUGH SCHOOL LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £322,847 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total funds increasing to £4,402,805. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, noting that cash is monitored day-to-day and longer term to meet future commitments. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,737,976, which are below the stated policy target of approximately £2,000,000. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Saffery LLP.

Who funds BRECKENBROUGH SCHOOL LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BRECKENBROUGH SCHOOL LIMITED as a grant recipient include PICKERING AND HULL AREA QUAKER MEETING.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
PICKERING AND HULL AREA QUAKER MEETING	FY2024	£100	Grants paid to Non-Quaker organisations
PICKERING AND HULL AREA QUAKER MEETING	FY2023	£100	Grants paid to Non-Quaker organisations
PICKERING AND HULL AREA QUAKER MEETING	FY2022	£100	Grants paid to Non-Quaker organisations

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MARCHANT-HOLLIDAY SCHOOL LIMITED.

MARCHANT-HOLLIDAY SCHOOL LIMITED income £3.9m
BEECH LODGE SCHOOL LIMITED income £4.0m
BREAK income £16.6m
MUNTHAM HOUSE SCHOOL income £8.3m
NORTHEASE MANOR SCHOOL LTD income £3.7m
ST EDWARD'S SCHOOL income £7.1m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BRECKENBROUGH SCHOOL LIMITED	£5.9m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
MARCHANT-HOLLIDAY SCHOOL LIMITED FY2025	£3.9m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BEECH LODGE SCHOOL LIMITED FY2025	£4.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BREAK FY2025	£16.6m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
MUNTHAM HOUSE SCHOOL FY2025	£8.3m	£140,000 - £149,999	—	above	—	no doubt
NORTHEASE MANOR SCHOOL LTD FY2025	£3.7m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.