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Registered charity · Cheshire

Bowdon Preparatory School

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £3.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Trafford
Website
www.bowdonprep.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Bowdon Preparatory School
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.3m£3.5m
  • 2024£3.6m£3.3m
  • 2023£2.8m£2.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.6m£2.5m
  • 2021£2.2m£2.4m
Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AT ALTRINCHAM IN CHESHIRE, OR ELSEWHERE BY ACQUIRING AND TAKING OVER FROM CULCHETH HALL LIMITED (CO NUMBER 525694) AND JANE HELEN TAN RESPECTIVELY THE SCHOOLS KNOWN AS CULCHETH HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL AND BOWDON PREPARATORY SCHOOL AND RUNNING AND MANAGING THEM TOGETHER AS AN INDEPENDENT PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS AND BOYS IN WHICH THEY SHALL BE TAUGHT THE DUTIES AND DOCTRINES OF CHRISTIANITY.

Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

10 trustees on the board

3y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 10Accommodation/housing 1Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 14Professional services 5Business services 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£3.3m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

12.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

79 from 64 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1142325
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 24/03/2011
Companies House
Company number 07577822 · Active
Contact on the register
01619280678
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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