CHESHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 310642 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHESHAM PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Chesham Prep is a day school for boys and girls aged 3 to13 years and seeks to benefit the public through the pursuit of its stated aims to maintain a high academic standard and also encourage skills in all academic as well as art, design & technology, music, drama and sport. Children are prepared for entry into county secondary schools and to the independent schools sector.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £163,466 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £7,745,868. The trustees consider the level of income and cash generated to be adequate to support the continuation of the school's operation, and the auditor confirmed no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Martin Otter — Headteacher (source)
• Mandy Chase — Head of Admissions (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)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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

• Ben Cartledgechair
• Ann Marie McNaney
• Catherine Teasdale
• Dr Adam Haycock
• Edward Parkes
• Jacqueline Crompton
• John Matthews
• Rebecca Brown
• Rosamund Axon
• Shahin Gulamali
• Shirley Drummond

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• CHESHAM GRAMMAR SCHOOL FUND income £190k
• THE NEWCASTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £3.5m
• CHOLSEY PRE-SCHOOL income £188k
• ST EDMUND'S SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £17.3m
• EVERSFIELD PREPARATORY SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £4.4m
• CHEAM SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £9.0m

Side by side with its peers

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