THE ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL TRUST

Registered charity 1129232 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Education of children/young people with autism/communication difficulties

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £2,332,996, with free reserves totaling £921,406. The charity reported a net surplus of £101,770 for the year, funded primarily by school fees from Norfolk County Council. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern, noting an expected uplift in funding rates from September 2026.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Larking Gowen LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06729913

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Adrian Crossland — 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.

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.

• YATES, David — director, appointed 09/09/2024on trustee list
• MEARA, Jennifer — director, appointed 11/07/2022on trustee list
• BRISBANE, Susan Anne — director, appointed 12/07/2021on trustee list
• GOODWIN, Michael Howard — director, appointed 23/11/2020on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Rose — director, appointed 23/07/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 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 (100% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/06/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Yates · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jennifer Meara
• Michael Howard Goodwin
• ROSE ROBINSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Brisbane

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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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 ST. NICHOLAS' EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

• ST. NICHOLAS' EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £115k
• DURLSTON COURT SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £4.1m
• DOWNRIGHT EXCELLENT income £224k
• ALEXANDER SHTIEBEL income £248k
• Halstead St Andrew's School Trust income £5.9m
• SARUM HALL SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

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