ST NICHOLAS' SCHOOL (FLEET) EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 307341 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST NICHOLAS SCHOOL

The principal activity of the School is an independent day school for girls aged 3 to 16 and boys aged 3 to 7 years.

Objects

1) TO ACQUIRE AND TAKE OVER AND CARRY ON ST. NICHOLAS' SCHOOL, HERETOFORE CARRIED ON BY MISS BRIDGET MAUDE FETHERSTONHAUGH AT FLEET. 2) TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN AT THE SAID PREMISES AND TO ESTABLISH OR ACQUIRE AS A GOING CONCERN, AND CARRY ON OR MANAGE ELSEWHERE, ANY SUBSIDIARY, AFFILIATED OR OTHER SCHOOLS FOR THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS, AND IF THOUGHT FIT, FOR THE EDUCATION OF BOYS UNDER TWELVE YEARS OF AGE, EITHER IN CONNEXION WITH ST. NICHOLAS' SCHOOL OR AS INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS, AND TO SUPPLY TO THE PUPILS GENERAL INSTRUCTION OF THE HIGHEST CLASS, TOGETHER WITH PHYSICAL MORAL AND RELIGIOUS TRAINING, BUT SO THAT EACH SUCH SCHOOL SHALL BE CARRIED ON AS AN EDUCATIONAL CHARITY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Hart, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net increase in unrestricted funds of £85,198 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income reaching £5,511,020. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £5,606,111, including £364,987 in free reserves, and maintains a healthy cash balance of £987,454. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue operations for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2025 (received 10/06/2026, 10 days after the 31/05/2026 due date); year ending 31/07/2021 (received 27/09/2022, 119 days after the 31/05/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Chris Nethertonchair
• Davina Maroothynaden
• Graeme Thompson
• John Casey
• Lynne Nixon
• Tom O'Connor

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST NICHOLAS SCHOOL (HARLOW) LIMITED.

• ST NICHOLAS SCHOOL (HARLOW) LIMITED income £7.6m
• NEWELLS SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £9.0m
• ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £2.0m
• ST NICHOLAS PLAYGROUP income £134k
• ST. NICHOLAS' EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £115k
• BEACHBOROUGH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £7.3m

Side by side with its peers

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