ST NICHOLAS SCHOOL (HARLOW) LIMITED

Registered charity 310876 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Operation of independent, charitable school

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY CHARITABLE MEANS.

Area of benefit: HARLOW

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: Harlow, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net income for the year ended 31 August 2025 was £180,208, resulting in total funds increasing to £5,612,942. The Governors consider the financial position to be satisfactory and the present level of funding adequate to support the School for the medium term. The charity holds no endowments and relies on tuition fees for funding, while maintaining a mortgage with CAF Bank.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Haslers. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2024) to £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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

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 00721476

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.

• MCLAUGHLIN, Madelaine Jane — director, appointed 05/01/2026on trustee list
• HASTE, Tracey — director, appointed 01/01/2023on trustee list
• HITCH, Kirsty — director, appointed 28/09/2016on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Andrew Edward — director, appointed 19/03/2014on trustee list
• TEMPLETON-KNIGHT, Jane Margaret — director, appointed 06/07/2011on trustee list
• PENNEY, Simon Keith — director, appointed 07/03/2007on trustee list
• ELLICE, Robert George — director, appointed 12/03/2003on trustee list
• MARDEL, Yvette — secretary, appointed 13/06/2015

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 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 ~9.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Robert ELLICEchair
• Andrew Johnson · trustee of 2 other charities
• JANE TEMPLETON-KNIGHT
• Kirsty Hitch
• Madelaine Jane Mclaughlin
• SIMON PENNEY
• Tracey Haste

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST NICHOLAS' SCHOOL (FLEET) EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED.

• ST NICHOLAS' SCHOOL (FLEET) EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £5.5m
• ST NICHOLAS WITH ST LEONARD EDUCATIONAL CHARITY income £31k
• ST NICHOLAS PLAYGROUP income £134k
• ST NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX EDUCATIONAL CENTRE income £118k
• THE ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL PARENTS TEACHER ASSOCIATION income £82k
• ST JOHN'S SCHOOL income £5.8m

Side by side with its peers

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