ST CATHERINE'S - SPEECH AND LANGUAGE

Registered charity 288148 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL

St Catherine's is a national charity working with children and young people with severe, lifelong speech, language and communication disabilities. We provide a specialist school and sixth form centre, intensive speech, language and occupational therapy, excellent residential facilities, a comprehensive vocational training programme and outreach support to mainstream schools, parents and families.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall surplus of £663,769 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £6,431,219 against total expenditure of £5,767,450. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were £1,064,003, representing 55.3% of one term's operating costs, which is below the stated policy target of equating to one term's operating costs. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bright Brown Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01757474

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Catherine's (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• RICKMAN, Roger — director, appointed 25/11/2024on trustee list
• BLACKSELL, Henry Oliver — director, appointed 22/02/2024on trustee list
• CARMICHAEL, Daniel — director, appointed 20/10/2023on trustee list
• LOFTUS, Michael Anthony — director, appointed 11/11/2022on trustee list
• RHODES, David Timothy Mark — director, appointed 08/07/2022on trustee list
• HEATHER, Martyn Andrew — director, appointed 16/07/2021on trustee list
• ELLIOTT, Peter Andrew — director, appointed 04/12/2020on trustee list
• METCALFE, John Peter — director, appointed 29/11/2013on trustee list
• FLOWER, Anthony John — director, appointed 09/03/2007on trustee list
• PENGELLY, Graham John — director, appointed 11/01/1996on trustee list
• MAREK, Andrew Simon — secretary, appointed 19/06/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £1.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: St Catherine's - Speech and Language — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 29/07/2014.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Flower
• Daniel Carmichael · trustee of 1 other charity
• Graham Pengelly
• Henry Blacksell · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Metcalfe
• Martyn Heather
• Michael Loftus
• Peter Andrew Elliott · trustee of 1 other charity
• Roger David Rickman

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

Operates in: Isle Of Wight

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TALKING TRUST.

• THE TALKING TRUST income £9.5m
• THE SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND HEARING FOUNDATION income £182k
• BISHOPS STORTFORD MENCAP income £1.2m
• ACTION FOR STAMMERING CHILDREN income £310k
• ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED income £13.3m
• ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL BRAMLEY income £20.6m

Side by side with its peers

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