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ST CEDD'S SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 310865 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST CEDD'S SCHOOL

St Cedd's School principally provides day education for boys and girls aged 3 - 11, educating them to a high standard and so enabling them to move to a suitable senior school for the continuation of their education.

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Latest income
£4.7m
Latest spending
£4.4m
Registered
1964
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £340,261 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £8,803,216. The trustees report that the school remains near optimal capacity and has no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £120,000 - £129,999 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £70k)
“£120,000 to £129,999 1” — page 30
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: sufficient working capital to meet the present needs and future development requirements (held: £7.7m)
“The aim is to budget so as to provide sufficient working capital to meet the present needs and future development requirements of the School.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Edmund Carr LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

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.

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 £1.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Total income
£4.7m
Total spending
£4.4m
Cost of raising funds
£50k
Reserves (reported)
£260k
Employees
94

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 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 (97% 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: 1.0% 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: Essex

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£4.7m£4.4m
31/08/2024£4.8m£4.5m
31/08/2023£4.4m£4.3m
31/08/2022£4.2m£3.9m
31/08/2021£3.9m£3.7m

Common questions

Is ST CEDD'S SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £340,261 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £8,803,216. The trustees report that the school remains near optimal capacity and has no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Edmund Carr LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of ST CEDD'S SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £120,000 - £129,999 band.

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
SIR HAROLD HOOD'S CHARITABLE TRUST1£21k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST HUGH'S SCHOOL (CARSWELL) TRUST LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ST CEDD'S SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED£4.7m£120,000 - £129,999—above—no doubt
ST HUGH'S SCHOOL (CARSWELL) TRUST LIMITED FY2025£7.5m£140,001 - £150,000—unclear—no doubt
ST MARY'S COLLEGE CROSBY TRUST LIMITED FY2025£11.5m——unclear—no doubt
CASTLE COURT SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£3.5m——unclear—no doubt
CASTLE HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£1.4m——unclear—no doubt
ST BEES SCHOOL FY2025£190k—0below—material uncertainty

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.