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THE NEWCASTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 528152 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of education for boys and girls age 3 to 11

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Latest income
£3.5m
Latest spending
£3.3m
Registered
1964
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £201,416 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with free reserves increasing to £2,385,142. The trustees consider the financial position to be sound and confirmed that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern for the next twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: two to three months' salary costs, which would equate to holding approximately £500,000 in free reserves (held: £2.4m)
“The Trustees considered it would be appropriate to hold the equivalent to two to three months' salary costs, which would equate to holding approximately £500,000 in free reserves.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: J Bal (Trustee) has a child attending the school. From the date of appointment, total school fees invoiced to J Bal were done so under the normal commercial terms of the entity.
“J Bal (Trustee) J Bal has a child attending the school. From the date of appointment, total school fees invoiced to J Bal were done so under the normal commercial terms of the entity.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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)

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.

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

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

Total income
£3.5m
Total spending
£3.3m
Reserves (reported)
£2.4m
Employees
48

Reported reserves equal ~8.6 months of spending — above the median 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

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

Operates in: Newcastle Upon Tyne City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£3.5m£3.3m
31/08/2024£3.7m£3.4m
31/08/2023£3.5m£3.2m
31/08/2022£3.0m£2.9m
31/08/2021£2.7m£2.6m

Common questions

Is THE NEWCASTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £201,416 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with free reserves increasing to £2,385,142. The trustees consider the financial position to be sound and confirmed that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern for the next twelve months. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Azets Audit Services.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE CATHERINE COOKSON CHARITABLE TRUST1£50k
CBRE UK CHARITABLE TRUST1£750
JOHN JACKSON CHARITABLE TRUST1£320

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEWCASTLE SCHOOL FOR BOYS.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE NEWCASTLE PREPARATORY SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED£3.5m——unclear—no doubt
NEWCASTLE SCHOOL FOR BOYS FY2025£5.7m——below—material uncertainty
NEWLAND HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£6.7m——unclear—no doubt
NEWELLS SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£9.0m——below—no doubt
NEWBRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL LIMITED FY2025£1.5m——unclear—no doubt
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME SCHOOL FY2025£12.8m——above—no doubt

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