Arden House

Registered charity 1193132 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LWS FOUNDATION, THE LLOYD WILLIAMSON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

Upper School ages 10-19

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY OPERATING A SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £325,601 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven largely by a significant donation of £1,011,880. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £947,497 exceed their stated policy target of six months' expenditure (£912,627). However, the auditors have highlighted a material uncertainty regarding going concern due to the charity's dependence on this significant donor.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HLAS Audit Limited. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Noreen Hallbery — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Shirley Drummond — 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.

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): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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

• Andrew Gohl
• Lisa Lofdahl
• Mark Lewis
• Noreen Hallbery

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEICESTER HIGH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED.

• LEICESTER HIGH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
• THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
• LONDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LTD income £1.6m
• WILLINGTON SCHOOL FOUNDATION LIMITED income £3.9m
• WILLIAM HULME'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £784k
• THE LLOYD PARK CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £4.4m

Side by side with its peers

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