Montessori St Nicholas Ltd
Charity number: 313636
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
The Charity achieves its objectives through relationships and grants to other organisations, especially to St Nicholas Montessori Training Ltd, trading as Montessori Centre International (MCI) and smaller project collaborations with NGOs and community providers. Bursaries and professional development support projects to expand access to Montessori are also supported.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 August 2024
Total income: £160,127
Total expenditure: £964,922
People
8 Trustee(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity has one or more trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity.
What, who, how, where
Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
- Education/training
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Other Defined Groups
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Other Charitable Activities
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England And Wales
Governance
Registration history:
- 25 April 1963: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
- THE MONTESSORI ST NICHOLAS CHARITY (Working name)
- Montessori St Nicholas Charity (Previous name)
- St Nicholas' Training Centre for the Montessori Method of Education Limited (Previous name)
- ST NICHOLAS' TRAINING CENTRE FOR THE MONTESSORI METHOD OF EDUCATION LIMITED (Previous name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- 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
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
8 Trustee(s)
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| Diana Man Chen | Trustee | 14 May 2026 |
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| Georgina Howlett | Trustee | 12 February 2025 |
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| Joshua Beagelman | Trustee | 12 February 2025 |
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| Amira Bashir El-Aghel | Trustee | 12 February 2025 |
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| Sasha Young | Trustee | 01 November 2024 |
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| Manisha Patel | Trustee | 01 November 2024 |
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| Saachi Jotwani | Trustee | 19 March 2024 |
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| Simren Anthea De Bourbel Priestley | Trustee | 19 March 2024 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/08/2020 | 31/08/2021 | 31/08/2022 | 31/08/2023 | 31/08/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £992.55k | £1.43m | £290.50k | £279.00k | £160.13k | |
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Total expenditure | £3.26m | £2.11m | £2.31m | £2.01m | £964.92k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £1.05k | £65.00k | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £0 | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £667.15k | £202.27k | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Investment | £32.81k | £64.36k | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Other | £291.54k | £1.10m | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £3.26m | £2.11m | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £0 | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £0 | £105.70k | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £0 | £1.32m | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 August 2024 | 24 June 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 August 2024 | 24 June 2025 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 August 2023 | 20 May 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 August 2023 | 20 May 2024 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 August 2022 | 25 April 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 August 2022 | 25 April 2023 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 August 2021 | 25 April 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 August 2021 | 25 April 2022 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 August 2020 | 18 June 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 August 2020 | 18 June 2021 | On time | Download Open in new window |