CRANSLEY SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 506907 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Independent Day School

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN CONNECTION THEREWITH TO ESTABLISH ACQUIRE ON (DEVELOP IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ANY BOARDING OR DAY SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS FOR THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF CHILDREN OF EITHER OR BOTH SEXES.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM IN PRACTICE GREAT BUDWORTH

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £505,997 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted funds increasing to £2,487,075. The trustees report that the charity's going concern is dependent on maintaining pupil numbers, though they are confident this headcount can be achieved. Reserves are currently below the policy target of one term's worth of expenditure, but are increasing year on year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Johnstone Howell & Co. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Richard Pollock — Headteacher (source)
• Professor Darren Walter — Chair of Governing Board (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 (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Cohen
• Dr Darren Walter
• Gail Pearson
• Geraldine Ann Yandell
• Sharon Elizabeth Minta

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Trafford · Warrington

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BLUNDELL'S SCHOOL.

• BLUNDELL'S SCHOOL income £19.5m
• ST MARY'S SCHOOL (COLCHESTER) LIMITED income £7.0m
• THE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £3.1m
• CHRISTIAN FAMILY SCHOOLS LIMITED income £340k
• THE DAIGLEN SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £1.6m
• CHAIGELEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £3.8m

Side by side with its peers

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