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GATEHOUSE EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 282558 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GATEHOUSE SCHOOL

Children of any race, colour, creed, background and intellect shall be accepted as students and work side by side without streaming or any kind of segregation, with the aim that each child shall get to know and love God, and to develop their own uniqueness of personality to enable them to appreciate the world and the world to appreciate them.

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Latest income
£9.3m
Latest spending
£8.0m
Registered
1981
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £1,307,115 for the year ended 31 August 2025, bringing total unrestricted funds to £10,412,294. Per the trustees' report, the school remains financially strong despite recent market pressures, including the introduction of VAT on fees and a drop in pupil numbers for the current academic year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £140,000 - £149,999 — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median £70k)
“£140,000 to £149,999 1”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: 3 months' salary reserves (held: £10.4m)
“Our aim is to maintain minimum reserves equivalent to 4 months salaries, currently approximately £2m. However, while the bank loan is running the Board resolved to amend the reserves policy reducing the amount to be held to 3 months' salary reserves each year end.” — page 11
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Quay Business Advice Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

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)

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)

Total income
£9.3m
Total spending
£8.0m
Reserves (reported)
£10.4m
Employees
107

Reported reserves equal ~15.7 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Essex · Kent · Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£9.3m£8.0m
31/08/2024£8.4m£7.6m
31/08/2023£7.6m£6.9m
31/08/2022£6.7m£6.3m
31/08/2021£6.1m£5.3m

Common questions

Is GATEHOUSE EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £1,307,115 for the year ended 31 August 2025, bringing total unrestricted funds to £10,412,294. Per the trustees' report, the school remains financially strong despite recent market pressures, including the introduction of VAT on fees and a drop in pupil numbers for the current academic year. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Quay Business Advice Limited.

What does the highest-paid employee of GATEHOUSE EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £140,000 - £149,999 band.

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
MYISRAEL1£20k
THE BURBERRY FOUNDATION1£11k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GATEWAY (EDUCATION & CHILDCARE) TRUST LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
GATEHOUSE EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED£9.3m£140,000 - £149,999—above—no doubt
GATEWAY (EDUCATION & CHILDCARE) TRUST LIMITED FY2025£875k—0below—no doubt
THE SUNRISE EDUCATION TRUST FY2025£466k—0unclear—no doubt
GATEWAYS EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£8.7m——unclear—no doubt
CASTLE HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£1.4m——unclear—no doubt
GATEHOUSE APOSTOLIC MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL FY2024£126k—0above—no doubt

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