Town Close Educational Trust Ltd

Registered charity 311293 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TOWN CLOSE HOUSE EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED, TOWN CLOSE HOUSE SCHOOL

The education of children

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £668,894 for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £7,800,696. Per the trustees' report, free reserves (unrestricted funds less fixed assets) totalled £239,606, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain the school as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Larking Gowen LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2024) to £110,001 - £120,000 (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00940118

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Nick Tiley-Nunn — Headmaster (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.

• BARTRAM, Mark Edward — director, appointed 23/04/2026not on trustee list
• SINCLAIR, Duncan — director, appointed 24/03/2026on trustee list
• GEORGE, Simon Ian — director, appointed 13/09/2024on trustee list
• HORDERN, Gemma — director, appointed 10/06/2024on trustee list
• WEBSTER, Isobelle Elizabeth — director, appointed 01/09/2023on trustee list
• FENTON-STONE, Faye Victoria — director, appointed 20/02/2023on trustee list
• RIPMAN, Helen Ruth — director, appointed 15/09/2022on trustee list
• COSTELLO, Denis Richard — director, appointed 27/04/2022on trustee list
• PATEL, Sonal Ashvin, Dr — director, appointed 16/03/2021on trustee list
• NORTH, Jean Louise — director, appointed 19/06/2020on trustee list
• FENNELL, Adrian Martin Alexander — director, appointed 01/05/2019on trustee list
• ARTHERTON, Kate Deborah — secretary, appointed 21/07/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £1.9m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~13.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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

• Adrian Martin Alexander Fennell
• Denis Costello
• Dr Sonal Ashvin Patel
• Duncan Sinclair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Faye Fenton-Stone
• Gemma Hordern
• Isobelle Webster
• Jean Louise North
• Ruth Ripman
• Simon George · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SCHOOL-LED DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• SCHOOL-LED DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £19.0m
• RADCLIFFE-ON-TRENT PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £190k
• THE DEAN CLOSE FOUNDATION income £63.8m
• THE OPEN SCHOOL TRUST income £1.6m
• CAREDUCATION TRUST LTD income £133k
• JAY EDUCATION TRUST income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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