B A S SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 306998 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BATTLE ABBEY SCHOOL

Independent Education

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Latest income

£8.7m

Latest spending

£8.9m

Registered

1964

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £170,451 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted reserves from £8,952,110 to £8,790,659. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, supported by significant fixed assets and unrestricted funds. The strategic objective to create an uncommitted reserve of £2 million was achieved in August 2022.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £120,000 - £129,999 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £70k)

“£120,000 - £129,999 1” — page 26

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Fundraising cost ratio: 2.7% of fundraised income, as disclosed

“Raising funds 235,685” — page 16

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: £2 million (held: £8.8m)

“The strategic objective to create an uncommitted reserve of £2 million was achieved in August 2022.” — page 10

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Contracted Atelier De Linde Ltd, a company of which Mrs T J Gallagher is a director, to undertake architectural work.

“During the year the school contracted Atelier De Linde Ltd, a company of which Mrs T J Gallagher is a director, to undertake architectural work. The total cost of works performed during the year ended 31 August 2025 were £720 (2024: £13,629) of which £nil was outstanding at the year end (2024: £nil). There were no other related party transactions in either 2025 or 2024.” — page 34

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Top pay band moved from £110,001 - £120,000 (FY2024) to £120,000 - £129,999 (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Hannah Blake — Headteacher (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.

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

Total income

£8.7m

Total spending

£8.9m

Cost of raising funds

£236k

Reserves (reported)

£50k

Employees

162

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 2.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

John Matthew Leonard Kingwell CBEchair
IAN SCOTT MERCER CBE
Paul Joyce
Philip Owen Padgham
Philippa Adams
Rebecca Upton
Tara Juliet Gallagher
Thomas Couchman

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£8.7m	£8.9m
31/08/2024	£8.3m	£8.4m
31/08/2023	£8.2m	£8.0m
31/08/2022	£8.2m	£7.1m
31/08/2021	£7.4m	£6.4m

Common questions

Is B A S SCHOOL LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £170,451 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted reserves from £8,952,110 to £8,790,659. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, supported by significant fixed assets and unrestricted funds. The strategic objective to create an uncommitted reserve of £2 million was achieved in August 2022. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by TC Group.

What does the highest-paid employee of B A S SCHOOL LIMITED earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £120,000 - £129,999 band.

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
THE APAX FOUNDATION	1	£45k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KING JAMES'S SCHOOL FUND.

KING JAMES'S SCHOOL FUND income £829k
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND NON-MAINTAINED SPECIAL SCHOOLS income £465k
Bedford School Foundation Trust income £2.7m
ST BENEDICT'S RC HIGH SCHOOL FUND income £265k
BASIS (REGISTRATION) LIMITED income £3.4m
WILSON'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION CIO income £341k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
B A S SCHOOL LIMITED	£8.7m	£120,000 - £129,999	—	above	2.7%	no doubt
KING JAMES'S SCHOOL FUND FY2025	£829k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND NON-MAINTAINED SPECIAL SCHOOLS FY2025	£465k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
Bedford School Foundation Trust FY2025	£2.7m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
ST BENEDICT'S RC HIGH SCHOOL FUND FY2025	£265k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BASIS (REGISTRATION) LIMITED FY2025	£3.4m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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