LONGRIDGE TOWERS SCHOOL

Registered charity 513534 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Independent education of boys and girls aged from 3 to 19.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the school reported a loss for the year of £97,602, a significant decrease from the previous year's surplus, driven by VAT changes and a reduced school roll. Despite this, the school maintains substantial unrestricted reserves of £4,585,433 and holds adequate resources to continue operating on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Greaves West & Ayre. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01675232 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mrs I. J. Cheer — Chair of Governors (source)
• Mr J. C. E. Lee — Headmaster (source)
• Mrs V. Bryson — Director of Finance, Bursar and Clerk to the Governors (source)
• Mrs J. Arnott — Deputy Head (source)
• Mrs C. Barber — Senior Leader/ SENDCo (Senior)/DSL/PSHE (source)
• Mrs S. Bullen — Co-Head of the Junior Department (source)
• Mrs S. Maddock — Co-Head of Junior Department (source)
• Dr N. Dalrymple — Director of Learning and Teaching/ English (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• RINGLAND, Mark — director, appointed 08/12/2025on trustee list
• BANKIER, Stuart Martin — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• ARMSTRONG, David Edward — director, appointed 18/10/2024on trustee list
• CHEER, Isabel — director, appointed 08/02/2023on trustee list
• WATSON, Jacqueline, Dr — director, appointed 01/04/2022on trustee list
• BRYSON, Victoria Juliet — secretary, appointed 01/07/2020

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 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 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Isabel Cheerchair
• David Armstrong
• Dr Jacqueline Watson
• Esmond Roney
• James Davidson
• Neal Clark
• Stuart Bankier

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

Operates in: Northumberland

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 ST RONAN'S SCHOOL (HAWKHURST).

• ST RONAN'S SCHOOL (HAWKHURST) income £8.0m
• GRANGE ROSE HILL SCHOOL LIMITED income £3.8m
• THE TOWER HOUSE SCHOOL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £3.3m
• LOCHINVER HOUSE SCHOOL income £5.7m
• ARDINGLY COLLEGE LIMITED income £45.1m
• BISHOP CHALLONER SCHOOL income £3.5m

Side by side with its peers

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