BOWDON PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Registered charity 1142325 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity operates the school known as Bowdon Preparatory School, the objects of which are the advancement of education for the public benefit at Altrincham in Cheshire through an independent preparatory school for girls and boys, in which they are taught the doctrines of Christianity. The school is non-selective and is currently committed to girls rather than mixed education .

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total expenditure on charitable activities for the year ended 31 August 2025 was £3,475,461, an increase from £3,275,856 in the previous year. Income from investments for unrestricted funds was £50,729 in 2025 compared to £40,766 in 2024. The document does not provide total income or unrestricted reserves figures necessary to assess overall financial health or reserves policy compliance.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mrs S Makepeace-Taylor — Head (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~12.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abbie Stewart
• Charlotte Commarmond
• Ettrut Batool Hussain
• Gregory John Lines
• Ian McIntyre
• Janet Sarah Bacon
• Nicholas John Edwards · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rachel Murphy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Roger Martin Willey
• Sally Lees
• Victoria Jane Harding

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

Operates in: Trafford

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL, EDGBASTON.

• ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL, EDGBASTON income £5.2m
• NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL (NORWICH) LIMITED income £1.2m
• BRENTWOOD SCHOOL CIO income £43.8m
• THE DOWNS SCHOOL TRUST income £106k
• BARNARD CASTLE SCHOOL income £12.3m
• PARKSIDE SCHOOL TRUST income £4.5m

Side by side with its peers

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