WILDWOOD NATURE SCHOOL

Registered charity 1204278 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Wildwood Nature School is an independent primary school for children aged 4 to 11 years in North London. We offer an alternative to mainstream education with a strong focus on children's well-being and spending time in nature following the Forest School principles. We offer 20% of our places for free, and a further 30% as reduced fees, to support children from deprived backgrounds.

Objects

4.1 THE ONLY OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO:4.1.1 ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BY THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A PRIMARY SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS; AND4.1.2 INSOFAR AS IT IS INCIDENTAL OR ANCILLARY TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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 ended the year with a surplus of £126,695, resulting in net assets of £90,822. The trustees confirm that the present level of funding is adequate to support the continuation of the charity for the medium term. The charity relies significantly on charitable donations, which constituted the majority of its total income.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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

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 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (63% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Caroline Shawchair
• Susanna Florence Knox
• Tara Royle · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WILD THINGS CHARITY.

• WILD THINGS CHARITY income £194k
• Forest School, London income £39.0m
• WOODLANDERS income £293k
• WYLDWOOD ARTS income £148k
• RINGWOOD WALDORF SCHOOL income £1.8m
• WILDWOOD TRUST income £4.4m

Side by side with its peers

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