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PINEWOOD SCHOOL LTD

Registered charity 309642 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PINEWOOD SCHOOL

To advance education by the provision of a day and boarding school (in or near Bourton, Oxfordshire) and by ancillary or incidental educational activities and other associated activities for the benefit of the community.

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Latest income
£8.3m
Latest spending
£7.8m
Registered
1962
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net unrestricted surplus of £543,714 for the year ended 31 August 2025, which is reinvested into capital projects. The trustees report a strong financial position with free reserves of approximately £1.99 million, representing 77% of their policy target of one term's expenditure, and unrestricted funds totaling £13.0 million.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £2.0m)
“One term’s expenditure amounted to approximately £2.58 million as at 31 August 2025, while the School’s free reserves under this policy were approximately £1.99 million (2024: £1.24 million), representing around 77% (2024: 49%) of one term’s expenditure.” — page 11
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Inspection and regulatory ratings

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Corporate structure

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.

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £1.2m. 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
£8.3m
Total spending
£7.8m
Reserves (reported)
£13.1m
Employees
136

Reported reserves equal ~20.2 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 (92% 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: Oxfordshire · Reading · West Berkshire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£8.3m£7.8m
31/08/2024£8.2m£7.6m
31/08/2023£7.7m£7.1m
31/08/2022£7.0m£6.3m
31/08/2021£6.5m£5.8m

Common questions

Is PINEWOOD SCHOOL LTD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net unrestricted surplus of £543,714 for the year ended 31 August 2025, which is reinvested into capital projects. The trustees report a strong financial position with free reserves of approximately £1.99 million, representing 77% of their policy target of one term's expenditure, and unrestricted funds totaling £13.0 million. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by HaysMac LLP.

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
THE CHARLES SKEY CHARITABLE TRUST1£75k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WOODFORD GREEN PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
PINEWOOD SCHOOL LTD£8.3m——below—no doubt
WOODFORD GREEN PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED FY2025£5.3m——unclear—no doubt
HINCHLEY WOOD SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT FUND FY2024£123k—0unclear—no doubt
THE SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOUNDATION FY2025£506k——unclear—no doubt
PAPPLEWICK EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£6.7m£150,001 - £160,000—above—no doubt
PINEWOOD GYMNASTICS CLUB LIMITED FY2025£1.1m—0above—no doubt

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