HEATH MOUNT SCHOOL TRUST LTD

Registered charity 311069 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promote and provide for the advancement of education and in connection therewith to conduct, carry on, acquire and develop in the United Kingdom any boarding or day school or schools for the education of either sex or both sexes.

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Latest income
£10.1m
Latest spending
£9.5m
Registered
1970
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £568,580 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £7,931,975. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting four to twelve weeks' expenditure for general funds, which stood at £1,328,039, exceeding the minimum policy threshold. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: four- and twelve-weeks’ expenditure (£0.6m – £1.8m) (held: £1.3m)
“The Governors’ policy is that General funds should ideally represent between four- and twelve-weeks’ expenditure (£0.6m – £1.8m)” — page 14
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £26k. 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)

Total income
£10.1m
Total spending
£9.5m
Cost of raising funds
£11k
Reserves (reported)
£7.9m
Employees
149

Reported reserves equal ~10.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Essex · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£10.1m£9.5m
31/08/2024£9.5m£9.1m
31/08/2023£8.7m£8.5m
31/08/2022£8.2m£7.9m
31/08/2021£7.9m£7.3m

Common questions

Is HEATH MOUNT SCHOOL TRUST LTD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £568,580 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £7,931,975. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting four to twelve weeks' expenditure for general funds, which stood at £1,328,039, exceeding the minimum policy threshold. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by HaysMac LLP.

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
THE REECE FOUNDATION1£90k
THE ROTHLEY TRUST1£5k

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HEATH MOUNT SCHOOL TRUST LTD£10.1m——unclear—no doubt
TALBOT HEATH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£8.1m£100,001 - £110,000—below—no doubt
RICHMOND HOUSE SCHOOL FY2025£2.7m——unclear—no doubt
MERCHANT TAYLORS' EDUCATIONAL TRUST FY2025£336k—0below—no doubt
PANGBOURNE COLLEGE LIMITED FY2025£12.6m£160,001 - £170,000—unclear—no doubt
THE NORTHUMBRIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD FY2025£2.9m——below—not going concern

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