THE NEW SCHOOL

Registered charity 1191796 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

An independent, non fee-paying progressive school for 4-16 year olds in South London.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY (1) THE PROVISION OF A SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN UP TO THE AGE OF 16 AND (2) THE CONDUCT OF RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS OF THE EDUCATION AND CARE OF SUCH CHILDREN AND THE PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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: Croydon, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource surplus of £53,109 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £1,824,128 primarily derived from donations. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds free reserves of £352,191, which exceeds its stated policy target of holding at least one month’s expenditure of staff and rental costs (£94,500). The trustees and auditors have confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Affinia (Orpington). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The New School (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lucy Stephens — Founder (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jason Tomlinsonchair
• Carol Khoury · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Kate Gribble
• Hamish Lungany
• Iman Haji
• James John Malatras
• James Searjeant
• Kenneth Brezenoff · trustee of 2 other charities
• LUCY BUDD
• Tim Howarth

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with QUALITY STUDIES.

• QUALITY STUDIES income £303k
• NEW END SCHOOL ASSOCIATION income £191k
• THE MALL SCHOOL TRUST income £4.3m
• WITHINGTON GIRLS' SCHOOL income £11.3m
• THE NORWEGIAN SCHOOL IN LONDON LIMITED income £1.4m
• FETCHAM VILLAGE PRE SCHOOL income £210k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.