CRANSLEY SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 506907 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Independent Day School

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Latest income

£4.2m

Latest spending

£3.7m

Registered

1977

Accounts read

FY2025

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

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £2.5m; policy: one terms worth of expenditure)

“Whilst reserves are not currently at these levels, the reserves are continuing to increase year on year and the Trustees are working to achieve this level of cover in future years.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor

“The going concern of the School is very much dependent on maintaining pupil numbers and potential wider political and macro-economic events.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

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)

Total income

£4.2m

Total spending

£3.7m

Reserves (reported)

£2.3m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~7.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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
Melita Mather
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

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£4.2m	£3.7m
31/08/2024	£3.9m	£3.5m
31/08/2023	£3.8m	£3.2m
31/08/2022	£3.0m	£2.6m
31/08/2021	£2.5m	£2.1m

Common questions

Is CRANSLEY SCHOOL LIMITED financially healthy?

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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Johnstone Howell & Co.

Who funds CRANSLEY SCHOOL LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CRANSLEY SCHOOL LIMITED as a grant recipient include BAKER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
BAKER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£40k
BAKER FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£25k	Donations of £500 to 12 recipients

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
JOHN JACKSON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£320

Charities like this

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

THE RYLEYS SCHOOL LIMITED income £3.3m
Cranford School income £12.7m
COLLEGE FRANCAIS BILINGUE DE LONDRES LTD income £11.1m
CROSFIELDS SCHOOL income £13.8m
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CRANLEY OTHERWISE CRANLEIGH income £313k
BISHOP CHALLONER SCHOOL income £3.5m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CRANSLEY SCHOOL LIMITED	£4.2m	—	—	below	—	noted
THE RYLEYS SCHOOL LIMITED FY2025	£3.3m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
Cranford School FY2025	£12.7m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
COLLEGE FRANCAIS BILINGUE DE LONDRES LTD FY2025	£11.1m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
CROSFIELDS SCHOOL FY2025	£13.8m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CRANLEY OTHERWISE CRANLEIGH FY2025	£313k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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