SUNNYLANDS LIMITED

Registered charity 309914 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST PETER'S SCHOOL

Independent day school serving Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough and surrounding areas for the independent education of children from 2 years and 9 months old to 11 years old.

Objects

TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, MANAGE, DEVELOP AND CARRY ON A DAY OR BOARDING SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS FOR BOYS OR, AND GIRLS

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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Registered contact address: North Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £1,000,831, with undesignated reserves of £52,810 held for working capital. The governors consider the financial position satisfactory and anticipate generating sufficient reserves through annual operating surpluses to maintain the school. The auditor confirmed the appropriateness of the going concern basis 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 Azets. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00414674 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• DRAGE, Rebecca — director, appointed 17/06/2025on trustee list
• ALDWINCKLE, Stephen Daniel — director, appointed 13/12/2022on trustee list
• LASKEY, Jenny — director, appointed 13/12/2022on trustee list
• DRAGE, Philip Martin — director, appointed 27/03/2020on trustee list
• DAWSON, Symon Paul — director, appointed 25/05/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Symon Dawsonchair
• Jenny Laskey
• Philip Drage
• Rebecca Drage
• Stephen Aldwinckle

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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Side by side with its peers

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