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Registered charity · Horsham

Pennthorpe School Trust Limited

To acquire and carry on in the United Kingdom any boarding or day school or schools for the education of children and to provide education based on inclusive values.

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £3.9m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
West Sussex
Website
www.pennthorpe.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Pennthorpe School Trust Limited
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.9m£4.2m
  • 2024£4.0m£3.9m
  • 2023£3.5m£3.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.5m£3.4m
  • 2021£3.4m£3.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

To acquire and carry on in the United Kingdom any boarding or day school or schools for the education of children and to provide education based on inclusive values.

Board analysis

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.

8 trustees on the board

2.2y median 2.5y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
10.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
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 8Religious Activities 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 10Transport 5Professional services 3

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£3.9m 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.

10.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.0 in 2021

72 from 69 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
307043
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 03 APR 1964AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 NOV 1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30 JUL 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17 MAR 2015 as amended on 07 May 2019 as amended on 27 Sep 2021
Companies House
Company number 00799603 · Active
Contact on the register
01403822391 · enquiries@pennthorpe.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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