THE HAWTHORNS EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 312067 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE HAWTHORNS SCHOOL

The charity operates The Hawthorns School, Bletchingley, Surrey. A preparatory school for girls and boys, aged 2 to 13 set in 35 acres of grounds close to Oxted, Godstone, Redhill and Reigate.

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Latest income
£8.4m
Latest spending
£7.9m
Registered
1970
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £7,554,441, which the Governors assessed as sufficient to meet obligations based on current operations. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £502,842 for the period, supported by total income of £8,381,082. The auditors confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's 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

Related-party transaction: Mr B J C Dyer, former Chair of Governors, was a director of Bradley Dyer Raw Limited which provides advertising production services to the School.
“Mr B J C Dyer, the former Chair of Governors, was a director of Bradley Dyer Raw Limited which provides advertising production services amounting to £6,997 (2024: £11,772) to the Hawthorns School. These services are provided at preferential rates.” — page 25
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: The Hawthorns (Pendell Court) Limited
“The subsidiary is a non-trading company” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 3 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)

1 registered title 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 31/07/2025)

Total income
£8.4m
Total spending
£7.9m
Cost of raising funds
£583k
Reserves (reported)
£7.6m
Employees
101

Reported reserves equal ~11.5 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 (86% 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: 7.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£8.4m£7.9m
31/08/2024£8.4m£8.4m
31/08/2023£8.3m£7.4m
31/08/2022£6.8m£6.7m
31/08/2021£6.0m£6.1m

Common questions

Is THE HAWTHORNS EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £7,554,441, which the Governors assessed as sufficient to meet obligations based on current operations. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £502,842 for the period, supported by total income of £8,381,082. The auditors confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund01/11/2012£2kAED for School

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAWTHORN TREE COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTRE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE HAWTHORNS EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED£8.4m——above—no doubt
HAWTHORN TREE COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTRE FY2025£677k—0unclear—no doubt
COPTHORNE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£2.6m——unclear—no doubt
THE FREWEN EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£4.8m——unclear—no doubt
TALBOT HEATH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£8.1m£100,001 - £110,000—below—no doubt
HINCHLEY WOOD SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT FUND FY2024£123k—0unclear—no doubt

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