BICKLEY PARK SCHOOL LTD

Registered charity 307915 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing education by the operation of Bickley Park School for boys and girls up to the age of thirteen plus, preparing them for scholarship or common entrance to senior independent schools.

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Latest income

£4.9m

Latest spending

£5.4m

Registered

1963

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is preparing its financial statements on a non-going-concern basis due to an agreed merger with Sevenoaks School, with trade and net assets to be transferred. The charity reported a net deficit for the year of £566,748, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £7,686,208. The merger is scheduled to take effect in early Summer 2026.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £130,000 - £139,999 — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median £70k)

“£130,000 - £139,999 1” — page 26

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 5

“Of the employees whose emoluments exceed £60,000, 5 (2024: 4) have retirement benefits accruing under defined benefits schemes.” — page 26

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

“The directors therefore do not consider it to be appropriate to adopt the going concern basis of accounting.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Pension scheme deficit: £39.8m

“The Valuation Report shows notional assets of £222.2bn and liabilities of £262bn, resulting in a scheme deficit of £39.8bn.”

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

Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2023) → not a going concern (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 00733991

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Tom Quilter — Headmaster (source)
Jesse Elzinga — Head of Sevenoaks School (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.

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.

NUIJENS, Geraldine Hazel — director, appointed 30/11/2016on trustee list
HANSRA, Mandeep Singh — director, appointed 30/11/2011on trustee list
CARPENTER, Jane Margaret — director, appointed 23/11/2004not on trustee list
ALMOND, Philippa Claire — director, appointed 19/11/2002on trustee list
TILEY, John Sheridan — directornot on trustee list
GODWIN, Diane — secretary, appointed 12/02/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £282k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Total income

£4.9m

Total spending

£5.4m

Cost of raising funds

£2k

Reserves (reported)

£7.7m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~17.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

MANDEEP SINGH HANSRAchair
Geraldine Hazel Nuijens
JANE MARGARET CARPENTER BA
JOHN SHERIDAN TILEY FCA
PHILIPPA CLAIRE ALMOND

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

Operates in: Bromley · Kent

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£4.9m	£5.4m
31/08/2024	£5.5m	£5.8m
31/08/2023	£5.6m	£5.2m
31/08/2022	£5.3m	£5.1m
31/08/2021	£5.2m	£4.7m

Common questions

Is BICKLEY PARK SCHOOL LTD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity is preparing its financial statements on a non-going-concern basis due to an agreed merger with Sevenoaks School, with trade and net assets to be transferred. The charity reported a net deficit for the year of £566,748, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £7,686,208. The merger is scheduled to take effect in early Summer 2026. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by TC Group.

What does the highest-paid employee of BICKLEY PARK SCHOOL LTD earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £130,000 - £139,999 band, and 5 employees earned over £60,000.