THE ALDENHAM FOUNDATION

Registered charity 298140 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ALDENHAM SCHOOL COMPANY

Trustee of the Aldenham School Charity and St Hilda's Educatioal Trust Ltd, charities engaged in secondary, primary and nursery education.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Foundation reported an operating deficit of £664,869 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a decrease in fund balances. The Governors confirm that the Foundation has adequate resources to continue as a going concern and that there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operational existence.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mrs A Hems — Head of Aldenham Foundation (source)
• Mr K Mahon — Bursar & Clerk to the Governing Body (source)
• Mrs S Toye — Director of Finance & HR (source)
• Mrs S Galpin — Head of Aldenham Prep School (source)
• Dr P Reid — Deputy Head (Academic) (source)
• Mrs L Lobo — Deputy Head (Pastoral) (source)
• Mrs K Miller — Deputy Head (Co-curricular, Outreach & Operations) (source)
• Dr DJ Paterson — Assistant Head Student Progress (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): facebook · instagram

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

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 (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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Phillips
• Andrew Hunter
• Archdeacon Charles Hudson
• Caroline Clapper
• Cheryl Clifford
• David Stephen Lambert
• Dr Uchechukwu Ogunna
• Fiona Cuttell
• James James-Crook
• Nick Tindal
• Richard Bryer
• Sarah Altman
• Steven Allen
• TORQUIL CHARLES SLIGO-YOUNG · trustee of 2 other charities
• Timothy McAllister
• Tom Wells

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Charities like this

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

• ALDWICKBURY SCHOOL TRUST LTD income £7.7m
• THE EGGAR'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, ALTON, SITE FOUNDATION income £150k
• HILDEN OAKS SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £2.5m
• ALDRIDGE COOPER AND JORDAN'S ENDOWED SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £176k
• DHS Educational Foundation income £1.6m
• AL-NOOR FOUNDATION LIMITED income £585k

Side by side with its peers

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