THE PETERBOROUGH SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 269667 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PETERBOROUGH HIGH SCHOOL LIMITED

The Charity's objectives are to promote and extend education in accordance with the doctrines and principles of the Church of England. The Charity also achieves and fosters links with the local community on the educational front and through the public use of its facilities.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £7,481,972, with free reserves standing at £683,100 after accounting for fixed assets and liabilities. The trustees report a net income surplus of £44,447 for the year, noting that financial viability depends on continuing to trade at a surplus and holding substantial operational fixed assets. The directors confirm the school is a going concern 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 Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Adrian Meadows — Headmaster (source)
• Mark Pryor — Deputy Head (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)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £400k. 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 ~11.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kenneth Craigchair
• Gavin Patrick Hynes
• KATIE CAROLINE HART
• Kanchan Chakraborty
• LYNNE AYRES
• MISS Helen Louise Milligan
• Paul Thomas Simmons
• Rachael Clayton-Fish
• Ruth Ellen Rutherford Gifford
• Sarah Ann Dixon

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · Peterborough City · Rutland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHURCH SCHOOLS OF CAMBRIDGE (THE OLD SCHOOLS).

• THE CHURCH SCHOOLS OF CAMBRIDGE (THE OLD SCHOOLS) income £378k
• PETERBOROUGH DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £487k
• EXETER CATHEDRAL SCHOOL income £2.7m
• ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL (HAMPSTEAD) LIMITED income £5.5m
• RICHMOND HOUSE SCHOOL income £2.7m
• LONDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LTD income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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