LANCING COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL AT WORTHING LIMITED

Registered charity 1155150 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance education (including spiritual, moral, social, cultural and physical education) in accordance with the doctrines and princilples of the Church in the Diocese of Chichester or elsewhere by carrying on Lancing College Preparatory School at Worthing Ltd. To promote and extend education whilst benefitting the public in a body where all surplus funds are reinvested.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £28,469 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to a deficit of £2,136,322. The trustees attribute this deficit to a 5% fee reduction and the loss of charitable rates relief, noting that the school is fully supported by its parent company, Lancing College Limited, which has confirmed it will not withdraw inter-company loans while the school returns to surplus.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Scott Crawford — Head Master (source)
• Kirsty Keep — Head Mistress (source)
• Francesca Milling — Head (source)
• Sarah Sutherland-Booth — Headmistress (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 (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 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 (96% 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 (12/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Robert Crawford Clarke · trustee of 1 other charity
• Siobhan Denning · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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