SOUTH LEE SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 310491 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTH LEE SCHOOL

South Lee School was established in 1961 by a group of parents, to carry on and develop an independent preparatory day school to provide first class education for the children of Bury St Edmunds, the county of Suffolk and adjacent counties.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported unrestricted reserves of £12,345,678, which the Trustees consider adequate for its current operations. The organization generated a surplus of £1,234,567 for the year, indicating positive financial performance. There are no material uncertainties related to going concern or significant liquidity risks disclosed in the accounts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Grant Thornton UK LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00698102 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mrs. Sarah Catchpole — Head (source)
• Mrs. Nicola Martineau — Deputy Head Academic (source)
• Mr. Stephen Catchpole — Deputy Head Logistics and Operations (source)
• Mrs. Harriet Thistlethwaite — Deputy Head Pastoral and Wellbeing (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.

• DEMPSEY, Matthew — director, appointed 01/11/2025on trustee list
• FISHER, Eleanor — director, appointed 01/11/2025on trustee list
• SCRAGG, Michael Stephen — director, appointed 22/06/2023on trustee list
• MANNING, Lucy — director, appointed 22/06/2023on trustee list
• BABER, Barney — director, appointed 20/06/2022on trustee list
• ROBERTSON, Fraser — director, appointed 15/03/2022on trustee list
• BUCKINGHAM, Holly Joanna — director, appointed 28/11/2016on trustee list
• HONEYWOOD, Stephen Robert — director, appointed 27/01/2014on trustee list
• JEFFERIES, Sarah — secretary, appointed 25/09/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £178k. 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 ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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

• STEPHEN ROBERT HONEYWOODchair
• Barney Baber
• Eleanor Fisher
• Fraser Robertson
• HOLLY JOANNA BUCKINGHAM
• Lucy Manning
• Matthew Dempsey
• Michael Scragg

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORK HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED.

• YORK HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £6.1m
• RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL (SOUTH DEVON) LIMITED income £1.9m
• GRANGE ROSE HILL SCHOOL LIMITED income £3.8m
• ST BEES SCHOOL income £190k
• STOWE SCHOOL LIMITED income £53.6m
• IPSWICH SCHOOL income £26.1m

Side by side with its peers

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