CHANNING HOUSE INCORPORATED, HIGHGATE

Registered charity 312766 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHANNING SCHOOL

The education of girls aged 4 to 18 years

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net income for the year was £4,928,300, resulting in a satisfactory financial position consistent with planned targets. The School holds unrestricted reserves of £38,223,100 and calculates its free reserves at approximately £7,400,000, which the Governors consider sufficient given the balance sheet strength and future investment plans. The School has no stated reserves policy target, noting that building material free reserves is not possible while bank loans are being repaid and facilities are being developed.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mrs Lindsey Hughes — Headmistress (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 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 ~20.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Leanne Leighchair
• Anna Rentoul
• Caroline Hulme-McKibbin
• Dominic Oliver
• JOHN ALEXANDER
• Jeremy Gewirtz
• Kees Van Der Sande
• Lisa Cristie
• Massimo Marinelli · trustee of 1 other charity
• Punam Peck
• Rahim Hirji
• Rebekah Iiyambo
• Rev Katharine Dean
• Stuart Prior

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

Operates in: Camden · Haringey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHEAM SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

• CHEAM SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £9.0m
• PALMERS GREEN HIGH SCHOOL LIMITED income £3.7m
• QUEEN'S GATE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £12.4m
• THE LADY ELEANOR HOLLES SCHOOL income £27.3m
• WALTHAMSTOW HALL income £11.5m
• GATEWAYS EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £8.7m

Side by side with its peers

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