YORK STEINER SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 511974 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RYEDALE WALDORF SCHOOL LIMITED, YORK STEINER SCHOOL

The main objective of the charity is to provide education based on the principles of Waldorf Education.The charity runs the York Steiner School for pupils aged 3 - 16 yrs old. It also runs Parent & Child groups and offers adult education.

Objects

2. Objects The Charity's objects (Objects) are for the benefit of the public generally in the United Kingdom and, in particular, the inhabitants of York, North Yorkshire and its surrounding areas:2.1 to advance the education of the public, in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing by:2.1.1 establishing, maintaining, carrying on, managing and developing:2.1.1.1 a charitable play or nursery school or schools;2.1.1.2 a school or college or schools or colleges to provide for all phases of education; and2.1.1.3 facilities for adult and community education;in or near the City of York in accordance with the educational principles of the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship and such other principles as the Trustees shall from time to time determine;2.1.2 promoting and assisting with the training of teachers in accordance with the principles referred to in Article 2.1.1;2.1.3 providing transport in order to assist pupils’ attendance at the establishments referred to in Article 2.1.1;2.2 for the general purposes of such charitable bodies or for such other exclusively charitable purposes in each case as the Trustees may from time to time decide (provided that the Charity exists only for purposes which are both charitable and educational and nothing shall be an object of the Charity which is not both a charitable and educational object).

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £37,715 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £420,053. The trustees' report confirms that the formal reserves policy targets two months of average operating costs, a target which the charity has maintained. The independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HPH. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Inspection and regulatory ratings

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• Ofsted — York Steiner School: Requires improvement (NULL) · Ofsted

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — York Steiner School (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tracey Lucas — Headteacher (source)
• Dr Simone Doctors — Chair of Trustees (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 (1 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 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (71% 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: 3.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aissa Gallie
• Alison Elizabeth Longridge
• Liam Clegg
• Lyndon James Nicholson
• Simone Doctors

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

Operates in: City Of York · North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ST MICHAEL STEINER SCHOOL LTD.

• THE ST MICHAEL STEINER SCHOOL LTD income £1.4m
• WILLOW TREE STEINER SCHOOL LTD income £121k
• NANT-Y-CWM STEINER SCHOOL LIMITED income £409k
• St Paul's Waldorf School income £2.3m
• KEYSTONE EDUCATION TRUST income £107k
• EXETER SCHOOL income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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