THE OPEN SCHOOL TRUST

Registered charity 328414 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NATIONAL EXTENSION COLLEGE, THE OPEN SCHOOL

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Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves stood at £759,315, which is below the trustees' stated target of £1 million. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year, with total income of £1,084,241 against expenditure of £1,198,064, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Prentis & Co LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Esther Chesterman — CEO (source)
• Kerrin Compton — Director of Finance and Operations (source)
• Sarah Turner — Director of Quality and Assessment (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Trustees

• COLIN WOOLLISCROFT
• Ceri Lianne Rose
• Dr VANESSA PITTARD
• James David Tweed · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martin James Weller Professor
• ROS MORPETH
• Tim Lewis Bennett-Hart

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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