RYDES HILL SCHOOL GUILDFORD

Registered charity 299411 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PROVISION OF NURSERY AND PREPARATORY EDUCATION

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Latest income

£2.2m

Latest spending

£2.4m

Registered

1988

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ceased to be a going concern following a merger completed on 1 September 2025, with all operations and assets transferred to Tormead Limited. Per the trustees' report, the charity is no longer operating and the trustees intend to start the process of dissolving the charity once these final accounts are filed.

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

What the accounts disclose

Going concern: accounts NOT prepared on a going-concern basis (closing, merging or winding up)

“After reviewing the available budgets and forecasts the Trustees concluded the charity would be unable to continue operating in its current form beyond the financial year ended 31st August 2025.” — page 3

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Bennewith 2018 Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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

Total income

£2.2m

Total spending

£2.4m

Reserves (reported)

£809k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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

Benjamin Martin · trustee of 1 other charity
Chris Houston
Christopher Bentley-Mawer
David Munro
Maureen Elizabeth Adams
TRACY WARD

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£2.2m	£2.4m
31/08/2024	£2.1m	£2.1m
31/08/2023	£1.7m	£2.0m
31/08/2022	£1.6m	£1.8m
31/08/2021	£1.5m	£1.7m

Common questions

Is RYDES HILL SCHOOL GUILDFORD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ceased to be a going concern following a merger completed on 1 September 2025, with all operations and assets transferred to Tormead Limited. Per the trustees' report, the charity is no longer operating and the trustees intend to start the process of dissolving the charity once these final accounts are filed. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Bennewith 2018 Limited.

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
GERSON BERGER ASSOCIATION LIMITED	1	£1.6m
E AND E KERNKRAUT CHARITIES LIMITED	1	£152k
WISEHEIGHTS LIMITED	1	£85k
SHULEM B. ASSOCIATION LIMITED	1	£84k
MOUNDFIELD CHARITIES LIMITED	1	£74k
SF FOUNDATION	1	£62k
OLLINGHAM LIMITED	1	£34k
TRUEDENE CO LIMITED	1	£20k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HILLSIDE PRE-SCHOOL.

HILLSIDE PRE-SCHOOL income £121k
THE REDDIFORD SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST income £3.1m
HILLSIDE EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £213k
HALLFIELD SCHOOL TRUST income £7.8m
ST MARY'S SCHOOL (COLCHESTER) LIMITED income £7.0m
IDE HILL PRE-SCHOOL income £112k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
RYDES HILL SCHOOL GUILDFORD	£2.2m	—	—	unclear	—	not going concern
HILLSIDE PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£121k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE REDDIFORD SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£3.1m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HILLSIDE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FY2025	£213k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
HALLFIELD SCHOOL TRUST FY2025	£7.8m	£150,001 - £160,000	—	below	—	no doubt
ST MARY'S SCHOOL (COLCHESTER) LIMITED FY2025	£7.0m	£80,001 - £90,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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