THE SWEDISH SCHOOL SOCIETY IN LONDON

Registered charity 307379 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SWEDISH SCHOOL SOCIETY IN LONDON LIMITED

Education of Swedish (Scandinavian) speaking children

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Latest income
£3.5m
Latest spending
£3.5m
Registered
1969
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource surplus of £29,066 for the year ended 30 June 2025, following a deficit in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £2,000,757, and the Board maintains a policy to hold reserves to handle temporary unforeseen financial emergencies.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Fees receivable (69% of income)
“Fees receivable 2,408,999”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: a reserve to enable it to handle temporary unforeseen financial emergencies (held: £2.0m)
“The Board’s policy is to have a reserve to enable it to handle temporary unforeseen financial emergencies.” — page 10
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

Corporate structure

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Swedish School in London (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Total income
£3.5m
Total spending
£3.5m
Reserves (reported)
£1.2m
Employees
45

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£3.5m£3.5m
30/06/2024£3.7m£3.8m
30/06/2023£3.6m£3.7m
30/06/2022£3.2m£3.2m
30/06/2021£2.7m£2.8m

Common questions

Is THE SWEDISH SCHOOL SOCIETY IN LONDON financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource surplus of £29,066 for the year ended 30 June 2025, following a deficit in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £2,000,757, and the Board maintains a policy to hold reserves to handle temporary unforeseen financial emergencies. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COLLEGE FRANCAIS BILINGUE DE LONDRES LTD.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE SWEDISH SCHOOL SOCIETY IN LONDON£3.5m——unclear—no doubt
COLLEGE FRANCAIS BILINGUE DE LONDRES LTD FY2025£11.1m——above—no doubt
THE NORWEGIAN SCHOOL IN LONDON LIMITED FY2025£1.4m——unclear—no doubt
THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES FY2025£1.8m——unclear—no doubt
LONDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LTD FY2025£1.6m——unclear—no doubt
LONDON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS STUDIES FY2025£1.9m—0unclear—no doubt

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