THE PURCELL SCHOOL

Registered charity 312855 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE PURCELL SCHOOL LIMITED

Provision of co-educational specialist music and general education

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the School generated an operating surplus from unrestricted educational activities of £188,399 and reported a net surplus for the year of £780,179. However, the Trustees note that the School has been operating a deficit since 2019 and that free reserves of £90,029 are below the stated policy target of three to five months of expenditure. The Trustees consider the School to be a going concern, supported by strong cash reserves of £2,457,627 and confirmed future funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Paul Bambrough — Principal (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)

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 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~16.9 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 (80% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bernard Traffordchair
• Dr Diana Jane Salzar
• Gautam Shashichandra Dalal · trustee of 1 other charity
• Prof Christopher Swee Chau Liu · trustee of 2 other charities
• Professor Timothy Jones
• RICHARD DAVID HILL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sophia Coles
• Susan Jane Baillie

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WELLS CATHEDRAL SCHOOL LIMITED.

• WELLS CATHEDRAL SCHOOL LIMITED income £19.1m
• EARLY MUSIC AS EDUCATION income £137k
• THE PREMISES MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME income £170k
• PALMERS GREEN HIGH SCHOOL LIMITED income £3.7m
• THE DULWICH SCHOOL CRANBROOK income £8.3m
• THE CHOIR SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION BURSARY TRUST LIMITED income £322k

Side by side with its peers

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