HIGHCLARE SCHOOL

Registered charity 528940 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HIGHCLARE SCHOOL LIMITED

The principal activity of the Group is the provision of tuition and general education facilities to children between two and eighteen years.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £85,196 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £7,765,263 and total expenditure of £7,850,459. Per the trustees' report, consolidated unrestricted reserves stood at £4,959,657, which is below the stated policy target of retaining reserves equivalent to the carrying value of tangible fixed assets (£5,155,236). The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Malcolm Piper & Company Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2024) to £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Miss F Smith — Head (source)
• Mrs S Cassell — Deputy Head of Senior School: Pastoral and Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) (source)
• Mr M Coles — Deputy Head of Senior School: Academic (source)
• Mrs J Griffiths — Head of Preparatory School (source)
• Mrs M P A McGoldrick — Business Manager (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)

9 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 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)

Reported reserves equal ~7.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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

• LOUISE ELIZABETH FLOWITHchair
• Adrian Davison
• Angie Moore
• IAN HAZEL
• JOHN ARTHUR BARRETT
• JOHN RICHARD BRAIN
• PATRICIA MAYALL
• STEPHANIE WATSON

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PALMERS GREEN HIGH SCHOOL LIMITED.

• PALMERS GREEN HIGH SCHOOL LIMITED income £3.7m
• ELSTREE SCHOOL LIMITED income £7.4m
• Highworth Grammar School Trust, School Fund income £565k
• CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL income £13.0m
• LEICESTER HIGH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
• THE HALL SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST income £12.7m

Side by side with its peers

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