Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 0
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

MUNTHAM HOUSE SCHOOL

Muntham House School is a residential, non-maintained special school community that supports the individual needs of young people with behavioural, emotional & social problems which cause disruption of their emotional development. These may also manifest themselves in ADHD, ODD and those within the higher functioning areas of the autistic spectrum.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • Why are there 13 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?
  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/08/23?£9,468£9,104£363£0£7,402£5,9157.81150
31/03/22£6,306£6,059£247£0£6,801£4,4368.81070
31/03/21£5,621£5,837£-216£0£6,059£3,3486.9960
31/03/20£4,728£4,276£452£0£5,837£3,81010.7960
31/03/19£4,045£3,921£125£0£3,155£1,2883.97912
31/03/18£3,719£3,510£210£0£5,260£3,72412.7730
31/03/17£3,448£3,249£199£2£5,051£3,15711.7670
31/03/16£3,358£3,333£25£2£4,852£4,48816.2730
31/03/15£3,612£3,128£484£10£4,827£4,82718.5770
31/03/14£3,284£2,968£316£9£4,343£4,34317.6730
31/03/13£3,139£2,924£215£7£4,028£4,02816.5670
31/03/12£3,160£2,877£283£5£3,812£3,81215.9750
31/03/11£3,150£2,823£327£6£3,529£3,52915720
31/03/10£3,187£2,771£416£19£3,202£3,16613.7740
31/03/09£2,898£2,713£185£67£2,787£2,71112700
31/03/08£2,484£2,386£98£64£2,468£7683.9630
31/03/07£2,340£2,213£127£49£2,370£7203.9590
31/03/06£1,974£2,094£-119n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £120,000-£130,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 11%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 80%
Reserves/Spending: 7.8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 3 months
Quick Ratio: 3.5
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 20 years

www.muntham.org.uk

office@muntham.org.uk

01403 739302

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Secondary schools
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Muntham House School
£800 23/02/2023
towards the cost of a day trip to Go Ape for 16 children with special educational needs from Horsham, West Sussex.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (13)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 12/13 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 31-85
  • ANGELA LUFF Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Care Worker
  • BARTHOLOMEW CALLAGHAN Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Education Professional
  • CHRISTOPHER BENTON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Teacher
  • IAN DAVIES Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Teacher
  • JOHN KNIGHTLEY Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Retired
  • JONATHAN COPELAND Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired
  • MARTIN FULLER Appointed: 2006, Occupation: Landscape Designer
  • MICHAEL KIPLING (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
  • MICHELLE WRIGHT Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Education Professional
  • RALPH JONES Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired
  • ROGER KEMP Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
  • STEVEN FISHER Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Gp
  • TRACEY KIRK Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 23/07/2004, number: 1105085
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/03/2004, number: 05063879
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

MUNTHAM HOUSE SCHOOL
BARNS GREEN
HORSHAM
RH13 0NJ

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES BY ANY MEANS THAT ARE CHARITABLE THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY DETERMINE AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF A SCHOOL.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE EAST SUSSEX

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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