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BABINGTON HOUSE SCHOOL LTD

Registered charity 307914 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Latest income
£8.4m
Latest spending
£8.0m
Registered
1963
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FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of income over expenditure of £546,356 for the year ended 31 August 2025. Free reserves, excluding secured balances, amounted to £573,880, while the actual cash balance was £2,258,546. The Trustees confirmed there is no material uncertainty relating to going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £110,001 - £120,000 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £70k)
“In the band £110,001 - £120,000 1”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three months of operational costs (held: £574k)
“Trustees aim to maintain at least three months of operational costs as cash balances” — page 7
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: School fees charged to Directors who have children in attendance, on an arm's length basis.
“There are relationships with some of the Directors who have children in attendance at the school. School fees are charged to these Directors in line with all pupils on an arm's length basis.” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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.

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 31/08/2025)

Total income
£8.5m
Total spending
£8.0m
Reserves (reported)
£574k
Employees
143

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 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: 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: Bromley · Kent

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£8.4m£8.0m
31/08/2024£8.0m£7.3m
31/08/2023£7.1m£6.4m
31/08/2022£6.1m£5.6m
31/08/2021£5.6m£5.4m

Common questions

Is BABINGTON HOUSE SCHOOL LTD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of income over expenditure of £546,356 for the year ended 31 August 2025. Free reserves, excluding secured balances, amounted to £573,880, while the actual cash balance was £2,258,546. The Trustees confirmed there is no material uncertainty relating to going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of BABINGTON HOUSE SCHOOL LTD earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £110,001 - £120,000 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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
PRISM THE GIFT FUND1£345k
DOUGLAS COMPTON JAMES CHARITABLE TRUST1£127k
WELLINGBOROUGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION1£59k
THE FARRER TRUST1£200

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BETH JACOB TEACHERS' SEMINARY.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BABINGTON HOUSE SCHOOL LTD£8.4m£110,001 - £120,000—unclear—no doubt
BETH JACOB TEACHERS' SEMINARY FY2025£113k—0unclear—no doubt
COLLEGE FRANCAIS BILINGUE DE LONDRES LTD FY2025£11.1m——above—no doubt
PEMBURY SCHOOL HOUSE NURSERY FY2025£144k—0unclear—no doubt
SEATON HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED FY2025£2.3m——unclear—no doubt
WELLINGBOROUGH SCHOOL FY2025£22.9m——above—no doubt

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