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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

To promote and provide for the advancement of education of children in the United Kingdom and elsewhere such education designed to give a sound Christian and moral basis to all pupils.

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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.

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

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.

In the news

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Corporate structure

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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £300k. 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)

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).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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?

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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Ridgefield Consulting Ltd.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE PALOMA FOUNDATION1£300k
UK CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS LTD1£66k
THE CROSS TRUST1£50k

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
Cranford School£12.7m——unclear—no doubt
THE DULWICH SCHOOL CRANBROOK FY2025£8.3m——unclear—no doubt
HEATH MOUNT SCHOOL TRUST LTD FY2025£10.1m——unclear—no doubt
ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL (HAMPSTEAD) LIMITED FY2025£5.5m£120,001 - £130,000—unclear—no doubt
LONDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LTD FY2025£1.6m——unclear—no doubt
CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS LIMITED FY2024£4.5m£110,001 - £120,000—unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.