PARKSIDE SCHOOL TRUST

Registered charity 312041 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PARKSIDE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED

The main charitable purpose is the Advancement of Education. The Governors have elected to run a preparatory school, providing education to boys between the ages of 2 and 13 and both girls and boys in the Nursery.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net operating deficit of £170,942 for the year ended 31 August 2025, primarily due to significant charitable expenditure exceeding incoming resources. However, the charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £731,561, which the trustees note will fluctuate as they execute their capital development plan. The trustees and auditors have confirmed the school is a going concern with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00667817
• Trading subsidiary: PARKSIDE SCHOOL TRADING COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 09441239

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Nicole Janssen — Head (source)
• Liz Whitty — Deputy Head & Head of Academics (source)
• Alex Gainer — Deputy Head, Head of Digital Learning & Head of Year 8 (source)
• Anne Benson — Bursar (source)
• Dan Leek — Director of Sport (source)
• Anna Baker — Head of Wellbeing, Head of PSHE, Head of French (source)
• Tina Cooke — Head of Pre-Prep (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.

• CHEESEMAN, Victoria — director, appointed 25/01/2024on trustee list
• CRANE, Janet — director, appointed 02/01/2024on trustee list
• DAVIES, Hannah — director, appointed 31/12/2021on trustee list
• PASK, Sharon Lorna — director, appointed 15/04/2020on trustee list
• KEANE, Karen — director, appointed 29/04/2019on trustee list
• WOOD, Jonathan Brian Vincent — director, appointed 19/03/2018on trustee list
• GREGORY, Celia Jane — director, appointed 18/03/2013on trustee list
• SOUTHWELL, Robin Simon — director, appointed 20/03/2012on trustee list
• BENSON, Anne Frances — secretary, appointed 20/04/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). 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)

Reported reserves equal ~13.1 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 (92% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/07/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBIN SOUTHWELLchair
• CELIA GREGORY
• Hannah Davies
• Janet Crane
• Jonathan Wood
• Karen Keane
• Sharon Pask
• Victoria Cheeseman

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Common questions

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• BELMONT-BIRKLANDS SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £2.1m
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• NEWARK PREPARATORY SCHOOL COMPANY LIMITED income £1.2m
• THE REDDIFORD SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST income £3.1m
• AL RISALAH EDUCATION TRUST income £1.5m
• THE DOWNS SCHOOL (CHARLTON HOUSE) LIMITED 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.