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.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CAUSE OF EDUCATION AND (BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) GENERALLY TO INCLUDE PROVISION FOR THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF ENTRANTS TO ANY PUBLIC SCHOOL OR COLLEGE OR OTHER SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES OR PLACES OF EDUCATION AND TO USE ALL PROPERTY AND MONEY FOR SUCH PURPOSES.

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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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

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

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £100,000 - £109,999 (FY2024) to £130,000 - £139,999 (FY2025).
• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

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

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: 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

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)

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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

• 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

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