BETHANY SCHOOL

Registered charity 307937 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BETHANY SCHOOL LIMITED

To advance the education of boys and girls by the provision of a school or schools based on a strong Christian foundation and tolerant of other faiths

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £134,195 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £16.01 million. The trustees' report notes that the deficit was effectively funded from reserves and highlights significant financial pressures including the loss of business rate relief and impending VAT on school fees. Despite these challenges, the auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00624273

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bethany School (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Francie Healy — Headmaster (source)
• Paul Jones — Head of Bethany 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.

• DUNCOMBE, Moira — director, appointed 14/06/2025on trustee list
• HAWKES, Sophie — director, appointed 14/06/2025on trustee list
• MCKNIGHT, Amanda Louise Lloyd — director, appointed 14/06/2025on trustee list
• HOBSON, Justin Philip Keble — director, appointed 15/03/2025on trustee list
• BATEMAN, Peter Gerald — director, appointed 16/11/2024on trustee list
• BUCKLAND, Keith John Roger — director, appointed 09/06/2018on trustee list
• CUNNINGHAM, Andrew Sinclair — director, appointed 14/06/2015on trustee list
• KIMBER, Nigel Philip — director, appointed 05/11/2011on trustee list
• FENN, Jonathan Mark — director, appointed 05/03/2011on trustee list
• MOREY, Clare Helen — secretary, appointed 25/03/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

16 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (16 freehold); recorded price paid £870k. 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)

Reported reserves equal ~21.5 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 (88% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jonathan Mark Fennchair
• Alex Sharkey
• Amanda McKnight
• Andrew CUNNINGHAM
• Elizabeth Connell
• Justin Philip Keble Hobson
• Keith Buckland
• Lindsay Roberts
• Moira Duncombe
• NIGEL PHILIP KIMBER
• Peter Gerald Bateman
• ROGER COLLINGWOOD CLARK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sophie Hawkes

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BETHANY FAITH MINISTRIES.

• BETHANY FAITH MINISTRIES income £171k
• CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS LIMITED income £4.5m
• THAMES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL income £4.5m
• BOOTHAM SCHOOL income £13.7m
• AL RISALAH EDUCATION TRUST income £1.5m
• ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL, EDGBASTON income £5.2m

Side by side with its peers

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