WEST LODGE SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 283627 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide non-selective education in Sidcup for girls and boys from the age of three up to eleven

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £161,355 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £2,782,935. However, the financial statements are prepared on a basis other than going concern because the school agreed to merge into St Dunstan's Education Group with effect from 31 August 2026, after which the company will be dissolved.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Affinia (Orpington). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01590162

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Robert Francis — Head Teacher (source)
• Mr Weighill — Deputy Head Teacher (source)
• Mr Spilsbury-Lyon — Assistant Head Teacher (source)
• Mrs Christine Head-Rapson — Chair of Governors (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.

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.

• JONES, Mark — director, appointed 01/02/2024on trustee list
• GATELY, Dinah Janine — director, appointed 01/02/2024on trustee list
• DAVIES, Jane Diane — director, appointed 09/12/2015on trustee list
• GASKIN, Nicolette Angela, Mrs. — director, appointed 13/11/2013not on trustee list
• HEAYBERD, Christopher Incledon — director, appointed 13/11/2013not on trustee list
• HEAD RAPSON, Christine — director, appointed 01/09/2006on trustee list
• STANDING, Gerald Francis — directoron trustee list
• ROHAN, Margot Frances — directoron trustee list
• WHYTE, Charlene Marguerite — secretary, appointed 25/11/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 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)

Reported reserves equal ~16.6 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 (98% 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

• CHRISTINE HEAD-RAPSONchair
• Dinah Gately
• GERALD FRANCIS STANDING
• JANE DAVIES · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARGOT FRANCES ROHAN
• Mark Jones
• Mr Chris Heayberd · trustee of 1 other charity
• NICOLETTE ANGELA GASKIN A.L.C.M.

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

Operates in: Bexley

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED.

• THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
• RED HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £4.9m
• LOCKERS PARK SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £4.5m
• DEESIDE HOUSE EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £7.8m
• LEICESTER HIGH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
• THE NORTHUMBRIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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