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.

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Latest income

£1.5m

Latest spending

£1.5m

Registered

1981

Accounts read

FY2025

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

Reserves policy: two months of average operating costs (held: £420k)

“the reserves policy which the YSS Operating Reserves fund, continued to target two months of average operating costs and this has been put in place and maintained.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Reimbursement of expenses to Trustees

“£194 fundraising and marketing expenses were reimbursed to 3 members of the Board of Trustees during the year (2024 - £668).” — page 32

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

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.

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

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

Total income

£1.5m

Total spending

£1.5m

Cost of raising funds

£53k

Reserves (reported)

£420k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£1.5m	£1.5m
31/08/2024	£1.4m	£1.4m
31/08/2023	£1.2m	£1.2m
31/08/2022	£1.0m	£964k
31/08/2021	£867k	£1.0m

Common questions

Is YORK STEINER SCHOOL LIMITED financially healthy?

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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by HPH.

Who funds YORK STEINER SCHOOL LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name YORK STEINER SCHOOL LIMITED as a grant recipient include MONDAY CHARITABLE TRUST, HERMES TRUST, THE BLYTH WATSON CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
MONDAY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£20k	Discretionary Grants
HERMES TRUST	FY2021	£5k
THE BLYTH WATSON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£1k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
City of York Council	—	£30	Ward Committee Grant

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Greenwich Waldorf School Initiative.

Greenwich Waldorf School Initiative income £2.1m
CAMBRIDGE STEINER SCHOOL PROJECT income £1.1m
THE ST MICHAEL STEINER SCHOOL LTD income £1.4m
MICHAEL HALL SCHOOL income £5.5m
RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL (SOUTH DEVON) LIMITED income £1.9m
STEEPHILL SCHOOL income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
YORK STEINER SCHOOL LIMITED	£1.5m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Greenwich Waldorf School Initiative FY2025	£2.1m	—	0	unclear	—	material uncertainty
CAMBRIDGE STEINER SCHOOL PROJECT FY2025	£1.1m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ST MICHAEL STEINER SCHOOL LTD FY2025	£1.4m	—	0	below	—	no doubt
MICHAEL HALL SCHOOL FY2025	£5.5m	£80,001 - £90,000	2	below	—	no doubt
RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL (SOUTH DEVON) LIMITED FY2025	£1.9m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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