FHS TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 525489 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FFYNONE HOUSE SCHOOL OAKLEIGH HOUSE SCHOOL, FFYNONE HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST LTD

Support of education

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE TRUST IS ESTABLISHED ARE TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND AS ANCILLARY THERETO: POWERS (A) TO (P).

Area of benefit: SWANSEA AND SURROUNDING AREAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swansea, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £120,536 for the year, resulting in unrestricted funds being in deficit by £818,021. Although total funds remain in surplus due to property revaluation reserves, the charity relied on a post-year-end receipt of £210,000 to clear its overdraft and maintain going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by John F Harvey Chartered Accountants. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from Over £60,000 (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2025).
• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Estyn: Her Majesty's Inspectorate For Education And Training In Wales. 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
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2024 (received 04/09/2025, 66 days after the 30/06/2025 due date); year ending 31/08/2023 (received 23/09/2024, 85 days after the 30/06/2024 due date); year ending 31/08/2022 (received 22/08/2023, 53 days after the 30/06/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01080984 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• DAVIES, Christopher Gareth — director, appointed 29/09/2025on trustee list
• PATEL, Pinakin — director, appointed 20/01/2018on trustee list
• HUGHES, Barbara Helen — director, appointed 20/03/2012on trustee list
• HUGHES, Barbara — secretary, appointed 01/10/2025

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Jones
• BARBARA HUGHES
• Christopher Davies
• PINAKIN PATEL

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

Operates in: Carmarthenshire · City Of Swansea · Neath Port Talbot · Vale Of Glamorgan

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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