FINTON HOUSE EDUCATIONAL TRUST

Registered charity 296588 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FINTON HOUSE SCHOOL

Operation of a School

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Latest income

£8.0m

Latest spending

£7.2m

Registered

1987

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the School generated a net surplus of £912,446 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total funds increasing to £10.5 million. Per the trustees' report, the School maintains free liquid reserves of £2.63 million, which meets its stated policy target of one term’s expenditure (approximately £2.15 million). The trustees concluded that resources are sufficient to secure the future of the School and identified no material uncertainties regarding its 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

Reserves policy: one term’s expenditure (i.e. approximately £2.15 million) (held: £2.6m)

“The Governors have determined that the appropriate level of free (liquid) resources should be one term’s expenditure (i.e. approximately £2.15 million)” — page 9

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Governors donated a cumulative amount to the charity.

“The Governors donated a cumulative amount of £11,520 (2024: £9,825) in the year.” — page 30

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Ben Freeman — Headmaster (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.

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): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Total income

£8.0m

Total spending

£7.2m

Cost of raising funds

£47k

Reserves (reported)

£2.6m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Annabel Tuckey
Annabel Tuckey
Anne Thackray
Benjamin Freeman
Daniel Graham Skirton
Elizabeth Sieczko
Flora Ellison
Harriet Turnbull
James Bashford
Julian Walker
Lucy Myres
Matthew Falconer
Michael Prince
Paul Mehta · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Wandsworth

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/07/2025	£8.0m	£7.2m
31/07/2024	£7.7m	£6.9m
31/07/2023	£7.1m	£6.5m
31/07/2022	£6.1m	£5.9m
31/07/2021	£5.6m	£5.6m

Common questions

Is FINTON HOUSE EDUCATIONAL TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the School generated a net surplus of £912,446 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total funds increasing to £10.5 million. Per the trustees' report, the School maintains free liquid reserves of £2.63 million, which meets its stated policy target of one term’s expenditure (approximately £2.15 million). The trustees concluded that resources are sufficient to secure the future of the School and identified no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by HaysMac 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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
JOHN JACKSON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£320

Charities like this

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

FELTONFLEET SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £8.1m
UPTON HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £4.3m
THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
SOMERHILL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £9.7m
SEATON HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £2.3m
Highworth Grammar School Trust, School Fund income £565k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
FINTON HOUSE EDUCATIONAL TRUST	£8.0m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
FELTONFLEET SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£8.1m	—	—	within	—	no doubt
UPTON HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED FY2025	£4.3m	£130,001 - £140,000	—	below	—	no doubt
THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£4.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SOMERHILL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£9.7m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SEATON HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED FY2025	£2.3m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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