WITHAM HALL SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 507070 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WITHAM HALL, WITHAM HALL SCHOOL, WITHAM HALL SCHOOL TRUST

To provide a high standard of education to all the school's pupils.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £54,871 for the year ended 31 July 2025, primarily due to significant depreciation charges, although the operation generated a positive cash flow. The trustees report that the year-end cash balance of £1,824,074 was well in excess of their internal policy target of maintaining at least £330,000. Free reserves stood at £245,284, and the charity has no outstanding borrowings.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr William Austen — Headmaster (source)
• Mr Andrew Riddington — Chairman (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)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 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 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Riddington
• Caroline Braid
• Dominic Thomas Oliver · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward Wass
• Gwilym Thomas
• HELEN MARY BANKS
• KATHERINE ROBERTSON
• Qin Wiseman
• Rev ANDREW HAWES · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ross Thain
• Samantha Rowntree
• Thomas James Wilson

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HULME HALL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED.

• HULME HALL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £2.9m
• EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT income £1.1m
• ST MARY'S SCHOOL (COLCHESTER) LIMITED income £7.0m
• THE AIMWELL CHARITABLE TRUST income £608k
• AL RISALAH EDUCATION TRUST income £1.5m
• THE SOUTHDOWN SCHOOL TRUST income £144k

Side by side with its peers

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