The Friends of Park Lane School Association

Analysis

The Friends of Park Lane School Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Reading. It was registered in July 1991, 35 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending August 2025, The Friends of Park Lane School Association reported income of £19k and spending of £10k, leaving 46% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £11k to £19k (+79%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 116%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, The Friends of Park Lane School Association sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Oxford Open Centre for the Cambridge Examinations in English As a Foreign Language (£19k), Arnold Educational Foundation (£19k) and Tweseldown PTFA (£19k).