CARLETON HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 505310 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Carleton House is an independent co-educational school for pupils aged 3-11 years.

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Latest income

£2.0m

Latest spending

£1.8m

Registered

1976

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £144,788 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted fund balances increasing to £1,760,301. The trustees report that the school remains in a strong financial position despite sector pressures, maintaining cash reserves of £1,011,438. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three to six months of normal operating expenditure (held: £106k)

“As a general principle, the Board aims to maintain cash reserves equivalent to between three and six months of normal operating expenditure” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 01260765

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Mrs. Coleman — Headteacher (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.

JONES, Thomas — director, appointed 19/01/2026on trustee list
BROWN, Ian Douglas — director, appointed 19/01/2026on trustee list
AHMAD, Gulfshan — director, appointed 19/01/2026on trustee list
CASTELLINA, Kristina Alice Elizabeth — director, appointed 19/01/2026on trustee list
NESS, Hilary Ann — director, appointed 08/05/2025on trustee list
ROBINSON, Janet Anne — director, appointed 11/09/2023on trustee list
HEGARTY, Sean Michael — director, appointed 18/01/2023on trustee list
BURNS, John Paul — director, appointed 11/02/2020on trustee list
CZARNECKI, Elaine — director, appointed 20/07/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

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.

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

Total income

£2.0m

Total spending

£1.8m

Reserves (reported)

£1.8m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~11.5 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 (99% 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).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (01/11/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

JOHN PAUL BURNSchair
Gulfshan Ahmad
Hilary Ann Ness
Ian Douglas Brown
Janet Anne Robinson
Kristina Alice Elizabeth Castellina
Sean Hegarty
THOMAS MANNING
Thomas Jones

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

Operates in: Liverpool City

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£2.0m	£1.8m
31/08/2024	£1.9m	£1.7m
31/08/2023	£1.8m	£1.6m
31/08/2022	£1.6m	£1.4m
31/08/2021	£1.4m	£1.3m

Common questions

Is CARLETON HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £144,788 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted fund balances increasing to £1,760,301. The trustees report that the school remains in a strong financial position despite sector pressures, maintaining cash reserves of £1,011,438. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited.

Charities like this

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

CHARLOTTE HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £1.4m
CATERHAM SCHOOL income £48.8m
THE NEWCASTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £3.5m
HALLFIELD SCHOOL TRUST income £7.8m
RED HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £4.9m
YORK HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £6.1m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CARLETON HOUSE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED	£2.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CHARLOTTE HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED FY2025	£1.4m	—	0	unclear	—	material uncertainty
CATERHAM SCHOOL FY2025	£48.8m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE NEWCASTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£3.5m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HALLFIELD SCHOOL TRUST FY2025	£7.8m	£150,001 - £160,000	—	below	—	no doubt
RED HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED FY2025	£4.9m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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