MARIA MONTESSORI TRAINING ORGANISATION

Registered charity 313087 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MARIA MONTESSORI INSTITUTE

The principal activity of the company is to promote the application of authentic educational principles on which the method of teaching children, known as the Montessori Method, is based and to train teachers in that method. In addition the company runs exemplar schools (3-16 yrs) in which students are able to observe Montessori principles in practice.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small surplus of £11,806 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income decreasing to £3,824,870 primarily due to the absence of a Charities Commission grant received in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £775,627, which is below the stated policy target of three months of unrestricted expenditure. The charity holds significant net assets of £8,741,235, largely invested in freehold property, and confirms adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00697468

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Benedict Kestner — Head of School (source)
• Lynne Lawrence — Executive Director (source)
• Sara Giwa-McNeil — Chair (source)
• Ian Stockdale — Treasurer (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.

• STOCKDALE, Ian Michael — director, appointed 22/06/2024on trustee list
• WESTON, Caroline Emma, Dr — director, appointed 10/11/2021on trustee list
• MIDDLEMAS, Catherine Elaine — director, appointed 13/11/2019on trustee list
• GIWA-MCNEIL, Sara Yvonne — director, appointed 13/11/2019on trustee list
• FORSYTH, Nicola Ximena — director, appointed 08/11/2017on trustee list
• SCOTT, Farran — director, appointed 06/02/2008not on trustee list
• WESTON, Caroline Emma — secretary, appointed 13/11/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 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 ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAROLINE EMMA WESTON
• Catherine Middlemas
• FARRAN SCOTT LRAM B MVS
• Ian Michael STOCKDALE
• NICOLA FORSYTH
• SARA GIWA-MCNEIL

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Montessori St Nicholas Ltd.

• Montessori St Nicholas Ltd income £279k
• THE CHILDREN'S HOUSE SCHOOL income £2.4m
• THE NORTHUMBRIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £2.9m
• Waldorf Learning Foundation Limited income £135k
• YORK STEINER SCHOOL LIMITED income £1.5m
• JEWISH TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE income £3.8m

Side by side with its peers

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