HARROGATE LADIES' COLLEGE LIMITED

Registered charity 529579 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HARROGATE COLLEGE LIMITED, HARROGATE LADIES COLLEGE LIMITED

Harrogate Ladies' College provides education to boys and girls in accordance with the principles of the Church of England. The business of the charity is entirely related to running schools known as Harrogate Ladies' College (girls only from 11 years to 18 years) and Highfield (co-educational from 2 years to 11 years) in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £1.8m for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £5.8m to £4.0m. The trustees attribute this planned loss to absorbing VAT costs for existing families and note that unrestricted reserves remain at £3.7m, which is sufficient to cover 14.6 weeks of essential expenditure against a policy target of 13 weeks.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00197987

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Francine Holroyd — Chair of Governors (source)
• Joanna Fox — Principal (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.

• MANNING, Nicholas Jay — director, appointed 05/01/2026not on trustee list
• BALDING, Christopher, The Reverend — director, appointed 16/03/2021on trustee list
• PAYNE, David Richard — director, appointed 10/03/2020on trustee list
• RENWICK, Lynne, Mrs. — director, appointed 05/06/2019on trustee list
• CHESWORTH, Ann Louise, The Revd — director, appointed 19/09/2018on trustee list
• BOWRING, Giles Richard — director, appointed 19/09/2018on trustee list
• PAPWORTH, Susan — director, appointed 06/03/2018on trustee list
• HOLROYD, Francine Charlotte, Dame — director, appointed 06/10/2015on trustee list
• JACKSON, Susan Brooke — director, appointed 01/09/2012on trustee list
• SKINNER, John Marshall Edward — director, appointed 29/11/2011on trustee list
• BUTTERWORTH, Andrew John — secretary, appointed 01/09/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dame Francine Holroydchair
• Ann Louise Chesworth
• David Richard Payne Mr
• GILES RICHARD BOWRING · trustee of 3 other charities
• John Marshall Edward Skinner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lynne Renwick
• Michael Abraham
• Rev Christopher Matthew Balding
• Susan Brooke Jackson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Papworth

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASHVILLE COLLEGE.

• ASHVILLE COLLEGE income £15.5m
• SIR ROGER CHOLMELEY'S SCHOOL AT HIGHGATE income £50.8m
• CHELTENHAM LADIES COLLEGE income £43.5m
• HARROGATE (WHITE ROSE) THEATRE TRUST LTD income £3.8m
• HARROGATE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL LIMITED income £1.2m
• FRIENDS OF HIGHGATE SCHOOL SOCIETY income £149k

Side by side with its peers

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