WESTBROOK HAY EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 292537 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WESTBROOK HAY PREPARATORY SCHOOL, WESTBROOK HAY SCHOOL · filing overdue (register status)

The provision of education to children aged 2 - 13 years.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £202,333 for the year ended 31 August 2024, with total funds standing at £6.2 million. However, the financial statements were prepared on a basis other than going concern following the board's decision to merge with the Mill Hill Education Group from 1 September 2025.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hillier Hopkins LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2023) → not a going concern (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01925994

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Brain — Headmaster (source)
• Elliot Lipton — 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.

• BEST, Chris — director, appointed 25/06/2024on trustee list
• SIMSON, Lucy — director, appointed 25/06/2024on trustee list
• DAS, Richard — secretary, appointed 26/01/2026

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~13.5 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

• Chris Best
• DIANA ELIZABETH DEBORAH ROBINSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lucy Simson

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

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

• EASTBROOK EDUCATION TRUST income £2.0m
• WEST KIRBY EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £11.9m
• MEDWAY EDUCATION TRUST income £2.3m
• HILLSIDE EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £213k
• THE NORTHUMBRIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £2.9m
• ROKEBY EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £8.9m

Side by side with its peers

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