TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 1151902 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The object of the charity is the establishment and ongoing provision of a Christian school in the Reading area. The school will teach from a curriculum which aims to provide an understanding of the world from a Christian perspective and to equip its pupils to live in a way which honours God and serves other people. The school will seek to welcome children from all backgrounds.

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Latest income

£111k

Latest spending

£155k

Registered

2013

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ceased operations at the end of the Spring term 2026 due to financial challenges, including the removal of charitable rates relief and reduced pupil numbers. The financial statements were prepared on an orderly termination of business basis rather than on a going concern basis. The trustees considered that assets were sufficient to settle liabilities upon this expected orderly termination.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of the resources expend to enable the charity to continue operating at the same level of activities in the event of a significant drop in funding, or major expenses becoming imperative, allowing time for alternative funding to be secured or to manage an orderly closure (held: £14k)

“The governors have followed a policy whereby the unrestricted funds not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets ('the free reserves') held by the charity should be three months of the resources expend to enable the charity to continue operating at the same level of activities in the event of a significant drop in funding, or major expenses becoming imperative, allowing time for alternative funding to be secured or to manage an orderly closure.” — page 7

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Going concern: accounts NOT prepared on a going-concern basis (closing, merging or winding up)

“In view of the intention to cease trading the financial statements have been prepared on an orderly termination of business basis.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 07941847

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.

DUNCAN, Robert Paul — director, appointed 28/03/2025on trustee list
CHAU, Kin Hei — director, appointed 27/03/2025on trustee list
BROWN, Keith Hampden — director, appointed 23/01/2025on trustee list
WILLIAMS, Ruth-Abigail — director, appointed 23/01/2025on trustee list
SINGH, Anand Julius — director, appointed 09/10/2017on trustee list
CHARLES, John Philip — director, appointed 24/06/2013on trustee list
CHARLES, John Philip — secretary, appointed 08/02/2014

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

John Charleschair
Anand Singh
Keith Brown
Kin Hei Chau
Robert Duncan
Ruth-Abigail Williams

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
28/08/2025	£111k	£155k
28/08/2024	£102k	£143k
28/08/2023	£174k	£87k
28/08/2022	£71k	£75k
28/08/2021	£73k	£75k

Common questions

Is TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ceased operations at the end of the Spring term 2026 due to financial challenges, including the removal of charitable rates relief and reduced pupil numbers. The financial statements were prepared on an orderly termination of business basis rather than on a going concern basis. The trustees considered that assets were sufficient to settle liabilities upon this expected orderly termination. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE CROSS TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE CROSS TRUST	FY2024	£5k