BUTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS LIMITED

Registered charity 312739 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BUTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, ST PAUL'S GIRLS' PREPARATORY SCHOOL, ST PAUL'S GIRLS' PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED

To advance education primarily by conducting in West London a day school for girls aged 4 to 11. The School's aim is to provide an academic education for pupils with a range of abilities and backgrounds. Bursaries enable a wider range of girls to take advantage of the unique education the School has to offer. Aims and ethos are on its website https://www.butehouse.co.uk/about-us/aims-ethos.html

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Latest income
£8.7m
Latest spending
£7.5m
Registered
1964
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the School reported a surplus of £1,027,181 from normal operating activities, with net assets increasing to £11,385,086. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £3,811,798, which the Governors consider adequate to cover unforeseen risks and meet ongoing commitments.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £130,000 - £140,000 — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median £70k)
“£130,000 - £140,000 1”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: approximately one term’s expenditure (held: £3.8m)
“Currently this is targeted at the equivalent of approximately one term’s expenditure.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

Corporate structure

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.

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Total income
£8.7m
Total spending
£7.5m
Cost of raising funds
£10k
Reserves (reported)
£3.8m
Employees
79

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hammersmith And Fulham

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£8.7m£7.5m
31/08/2024£8.8m£7.2m
31/08/2023£7.2m£6.6m
31/08/2022£6.2m£5.9m
31/08/2021£5.4m£5.5m

Common questions

Is BUTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the School reported a surplus of £1,027,181 from normal operating activities, with net assets increasing to £11,385,086. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £3,811,798, which the Governors consider adequate to cover unforeseen risks and meet ongoing commitments. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Saffery LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of BUTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS LIMITED earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £130,000 - £140,000 band.

Who funds BUTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BUTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS LIMITED as a grant recipient include ST PAUL'S SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
ST PAUL'S SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONFY2025£25kAssociated Schools Mental Health & Wellbeing
ST PAUL'S SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONFY2024£25kAssociated Schools Mental Health & Wellbeing
ST PAUL'S SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONFY2022£25kSupport for therapeutic activities for local partnership school children within a dedicated mental health and wellbeing space at Bute House.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The Mercers' Company07/05/2026£200Grant to Bute House Preparatory School for Girls
The Mercers' Company04/06/2025£80kGrant to Bute House Preparatory School for Girls
The Mercers' Company04/06/2025£200Grant to Bute House Preparatory School for Girls
The Mercers' Company04/06/2025£80kGrant to Bute House Preparatory School for Girls
The Mercers' Company10/06/2024£200Grant to Bute House Preparatory School for Girls
The Mercers' Company03/04/2023£200Grant to Bute House Preparatory School for Girls
The Mercers' Company19/05/2022£200Grant to Bute House Preparatory School for Girls
The Mercers' Company01/03/2022£75kGrant to Bute House Preparatory School for Girls

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUSSEX HOUSE SCHOOL.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BUTE HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS LIMITED£8.7m£130,000 - £140,000—unclear—no doubt
SUSSEX HOUSE SCHOOL FY2025£5.7m£150,001 - £160,000—unclear—no doubt
YORK HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£6.1m——above—no doubt
ST PETER'S COLLEGE (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS WESTMINSTER SCHOOL) FY2025£46.1m——unclear—no doubt
EVERSFIELD PREPARATORY SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£4.4m£120,001 - £130,0006unclear—no doubt
BRENTWOOD SCHOOL CIO FY2025£43.8m——above—no doubt

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