ESCP EUROPE - BUSINESS SCHOOL

Registered charity 293027 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ESCP - EAP EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, ESCP - EAP-EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Post Graduate Higher Education Teaching, Research and Executive Education

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Latest income
£17.3m
Latest spending
£17.5m
Registered
1985
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated loss of £0.4m for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £0.2m. Per the trustees' report, the charity relies on a letter of financial support from its parent entity and ongoing financing to maintain going concern status, noting that it had net current liabilities of £2.6m at year-end.

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

What the accounts disclose

Trading subsidiary: ESCP Europe Corporate Services Limited
“The Charity wholly owns ESCP Europe Corporate Services Limited, the objects of which are to carry on business as providers of executive education and training.” — page 10
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

Corporate structure

ESCP EUROPE CORPORATE SERVICES LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
  • Turnover: £790k
  • Profit before tax: £93k
  • Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £93k
  • Creditors: amounts owed to group undertakings £382,497 (2024: £725,552); Debtors: amounts owed from group undertakings £0 (2024: £75,638). Related party transactions include income/recharges from ESCP Europe Business School (£76,355 debtor balance in 2024) and costs/recharges to ESCP Europe Business School (£378,863 incurred, £219,655 creditor balance in 2025).
“Donation gift aided to ESCP Europe Business Schoo! (92,801)”

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 31/12/2025)

Total income
£17.3m
Total spending
£17.5m
Reserves (reported)
£0
Employees
117

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: Camden

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£17.3m£17.5m
31/12/2024£17.1m£17.4m
31/12/2023£14.5m£11.7m
31/12/2022£11.8m£13.5m
31/12/2021£12.6m£14.4m

Common questions

Is ESCP EUROPE - BUSINESS SCHOOL financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated loss of £0.4m for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £0.2m. Per the trustees' report, the charity relies on a letter of financial support from its parent entity and ongoing financing to maintain going concern status, noting that it had net current liabilities of £2.6m at year-end. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ESCP EUROPE - BUSINESS SCHOOL£17.3m——unclear—no doubt
EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT FY2025£1.1m£90,001 - £100,000—above—no doubt
HULT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL LTD FY2025£19.7m£145,000 - £149,999—unclear—no doubt
EDHEC CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£260k—0unclear1.4%no doubt
LONDON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS STUDIES FY2025£1.9m—0unclear—no doubt
National Centre For Universities and Business FY2025£2.9m——unclear—no doubt

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