NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME SCHOOL

Registered charity 1124463 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7017338 · Wikipedia

The School provides high quality educational and pastoral care to over 800pupils aged 3-18. It achieves outstanding results at A level, complemented by success in sporting and extra-curricular activities. Pupils invariably proceed to Higher Education. Means tested bursaries are awarded ensuring a balanced social mix within the School.

Objects

THE OBJECTS ( THE OBJECTS ) FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING BY ;1) THE PROVISION AND CONDUCT IN OR NEAR NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, OF A DAY AND/OR BOARDING SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS ( THE SCHOOL ) FOR BOYS AND/OR GIRLS WHICH SHALL SUBJECT TO BELOW INCLUDE INSTRUCTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH; AND2) ANCILLARY OR INCIDENTAL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND OTHER ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY.IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY POLICY SET BY THE GOVERNORS FROM TIME TO TIME ANY PUPIL MAY BE EXEMPTED FROM INSTRUCTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.

Area of benefit: NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME

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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Registered contact address: Newcastle-under-Lyme, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of negative £453,921 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total reserves of £18,251,931. The trustees maintain a policy of holding sufficient unrestricted income reserves to meet short-term obligations, supported by readily realisable securities for longer-term commitments. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis 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 Deans Chartered Accountants. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Estyn: Her Majesty's Inspectorate For Education And Training In Wales. 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
• Investment
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06611453
• Trading subsidiary: CASTILIAN ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 09866298

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Michael Getty — Headmaster (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SHARDLOW, Susan — director, appointed 20/10/2025on trustee list
• JAGADESHAM, Vamshi — director, appointed 23/01/2025on trustee list
• COLCLOUGH, Richard John — director, appointed 23/01/2025on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, David Ross — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• HOLLAND, David Robert — director, appointed 26/03/2018not on trustee list
• MCGOWAN, Andrew — director, appointed 06/12/2017on trustee list
• WALLBANK, David Philip — director, appointed 01/07/2008not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~13.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID PHILIP WALLBANK BAchair
• Andrew John Cawthorne
• Andrew McGowan
• David Holland MA
• David Ross Williams
• Richard John Colclough
• Susan Shardlow
• Vamshi Jagadesham

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Shropshire · Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEWCASTLE CHILDREN'S CENTRE.

• NEWCASTLE CHILDREN'S CENTRE income £78k
• THE NEWCASTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £3.5m
• NEWCASTLE SCHOOL FOR BOYS income £5.7m
• ELSTREE SCHOOL LIMITED income £7.4m
• NEWELLS SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £9.0m
• HOLY TRINITY PRE-SCHOOL (NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME) income £79k

Side by side with its peers

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