HOLY CROSS PREPARATORY SCHOOL KINGSTON

Registered charity 1200167 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance education in accordance with the principles and doctrines of the Roman Catholic religion in particular, but without limitation, by running a school known as Holy Cross Preparatory School in accordance with the principles and subject to the regulations and discipline of the Roman Catholic church but welcoming to all faiths and backgrounds.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £420,523 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted free reserves of £2,289,594. Per the trustees' report, these reserves represent 44.5% of annual expenditure, which is consistent with the stated policy target of three to six months of regular expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mrs Sarah Hair — 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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 Steet
• Beverley Brown
• CHRISTOPHER DALEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Io Epstein
• KIERON LYNCH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mary Kathleen Hayes
• Russell Hanna
• SISTER MARGARET DONOVAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Hair
• Sister Ursula Eberhardt Sr
• Stephen Lehec

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LOYOLA PREPARATORY SCHOOL.

• THE LOYOLA PREPARATORY SCHOOL income £2.1m
• WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL income £7.1m
• NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL (NORWICH) LIMITED income £1.2m
• ST GEORGE'S WEYBRIDGE income £35.5m
• STONYHURST income £25.5m
• THE URSULINE PREPARATORY SCHOOL income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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