HULME HALL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 525931 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HULME HALL SCHOOL

We are a School that provides full time education to children and young people between the ages of 2 to 16 in a supportive and high quality environment. The School's aims are to be recognised as a school in which pupils obtain high levels of personal and academic achievement. Our mission is to realise our pupils' true potential.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £3,358,709, which the trustees consider adequate to support the school's activities in the short term. The charity reported a surplus of £789,358 for the year, significantly boosted by a £750,000 payment from an overage agreement on a land sale. While the trustees acknowledge economic pressures such as VAT on fees, they confirm the school can meet its obligations for at least twelve months.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00773867

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Dean Grierson — Headmaster (source)
• Mrs Jacqueline Smith — Assistant Headteacher (Pupil Progress) (source)
• Mr Philip Bradford — Assistant Headteacher (Curriculum) (source)
• Mr Simon Malkin — Business Manager (source)
• Mr Richard Lamerton — Associate Assistant Headteacher (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.

• ROBERTSON, Christopher Milton — director, appointed 25/03/2026on trustee list
• SHONFELD, Richard Charles — director, appointed 25/03/2026on trustee list
• NICHOLLS, Edward William — director, appointed 13/06/2021on trustee list
• CARR, Laurence Howarth — director, appointed 23/03/2017on trustee list
• SHACKLETON, John Anthony — director, appointed 22/04/2014not on trustee list
• LOWE, Tim Reginald — director, appointed 14/05/2013not on trustee list
• MALKIN, Simon — secretary, appointed 24/07/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £2.2m. 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 ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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

• Timothy Lowechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Milton Robertson
• Edward William Nicholls
• John Shackelton
• LAURENCE HOWARTH CARR
• Richard Charles Shonfeld

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Stockport

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• WITHAM HALL SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £4.5m
• HOLME GRANGE LTD income £12.8m
• THE VERNON EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £13.5m
• THE NORTHUMBRIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £2.9m
• HILDEN OAKS SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £2.5m
• WILLIAM HULME'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £784k

Side by side with its peers

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