GATEWAYS EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 529206 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GATEWAYS EDUCATIONAL TRUST

The provision of a day school for educating girls and boys aged from 2 to 18.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £129,878 for the year ended 31 August 2025, compared to a deficit of £167,315 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, the school holds unrestricted reserves of £13,713,177, although the governors note that free reserves are effectively £0 due to the value being tied up in tangible fixed assets. The trustees confirm the school is well-placed to continue as a going concern with adequate support from finance providers.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00702484

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Tracy Johnson — Head (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.

• MOUNTAIN, David — director, appointed 10/02/2026on trustee list
• LORENCE, Tori — director, appointed 27/11/2023on trustee list
• MACHUGH, Nick — director, appointed 21/06/2023on trustee list
• STEPHENS, Nicola — director, appointed 12/05/2023on trustee list
• MARSH, Roger, Sir — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• CALVERT, Michelle — director, appointed 01/09/2020on trustee list
• WEBSTER, Richard Michael — director, appointed 17/03/2004on trustee list
• AMOS, Emma — secretary, appointed 08/05/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £910k. 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 ~4.6 months of spending — below 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: 3.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Hutchings Mountain
• Michelle Calvert
• Nick MacHugh
• Nicola Stephens
• RICHARD MICHAEL WEBSTER
• Sir Roger Marsh
• Tori Lorence

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with QUEEN'S GATE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED.

• QUEEN'S GATE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £12.4m
• GATEWAYS income £878k
• DURSTON HOUSE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £6.9m
• PARKSIDE SCHOOL TRUST income £4.5m
• READING EDUCATION TRUST income £1.1m
• THE GODSTOWE PREPARATORY SCHOOL COMPANY LIMITED income £8.3m

Side by side with its peers

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