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Cranford School

Registered charity 280883 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CRANFORD HOUSE SCHOOL, CRANFORD HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED

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Latest income
£12.7m
Latest spending
£11.8m
Registered
1980
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus of £904,707 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted funds carried forward amounting to £10,400,723. The trustees maintain a policy of holding sufficient reserves to cover essential operating expenditure for a minimum of a term, and the current unrestricted reserves significantly exceed this stated target. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: a minimum of a term (held: £10.4m)
“It is also the policy of the Governors to build up sufficient reserves to cover the immediate needs for essential operating expenditure for a minimum of a term or to have ready access to additional funds to finance this requirement.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Ridgefield Consulting Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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

Total income
£12.7m
Total spending
£11.8m
Reserves (reported)
£10.4m
Employees
148

Reported reserves equal ~10.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Trustees

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£12.7m£11.8m
31/08/2024£11.7m£10.6m
31/08/2023£10.1m£9.6m
31/08/2022£9.2m£8.7m
31/08/2021£8.0m£7.7m

Common questions

Is Cranford School financially healthy?

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus of £904,707 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted funds carried forward amounting to £10,400,723. The trustees maintain a policy of holding sufficient reserves to cover essential operating expenditure for a minimum of a term, and the current unrestricted reserves significantly exceed this stated target. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Ridgefield Consulting Ltd.