THE ABBEY SCHOOL, READING

Registered charity 309115 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ABBEY SCHOOL

The provision of education to girls aged 3-18.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £640,621 for the year ended 31 August 2025, reversing a surplus from the previous year. Despite net current liabilities of £1,773,177, the trustees confirm the school has sufficient resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future, supported by a strong asset base and positive cash flow from operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by James Cowper Kreston Audit. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• The Abbey School, Reading hosts ‘100 Years of Women at the Bar’ judiciary.uk · 04/05/2023
• The Abbey School, Reading getreading.co.uk · 23/01/2018

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Sarah Tullis — Head (source)
• Mrs Nadine Doble — Head of Finance and Resources (source)
• Mr George Morton — Deputy Head and DSL, Senior School (source)
• Dr Colin Pearson — Deputy Head, Senior School (source)
• Ms Anna Brunskill — Assistant Head, Senior School (source)
• Mrs Charlotte Hart — Assistant Head – Director of Sixth Form (source)
• Mrs Nathalie Williams — Director of Upper School (source)
• Ms Elisse Power — Director of Lower 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (10 freehold); recorded price paid £280k. 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 ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ELIZABETH ANN HARRISONchair
• Adam Jacobs
• Andrew Peach
• Colin Singer
• Dr Harriet Kemp
• Hector Maclennan
• Joanna Kumari Jolly
• Julie Butler
• Nicholas Burrows
• Richard Brown
• Robyn Field
• SIMON MARK DIMMICK LLB

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ABINGDON SCHOOL.

• ABINGDON SCHOOL income £34.7m
• OUR LADY'S ABINGDON TRUSTEES LIMITED income £6.2m
• THE COUNCIL OF MILTON ABBEY SCHOOL LTD income £10.2m
• RED HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £4.9m
• READING EDUCATION TRUST income £1.1m
• ST AUBYN'S (WOODFORD GREEN) SCHOOL TRUST income £6.3m

Side by side with its peers

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