Elmstead Primary School Association

Analysis

Elmstead Primary School Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Colchester. It was registered in December 1992, 34 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, Elmstead Primary School Association reported income of £19k and spending of £21k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £3,110 to £19k (+506%), an average of +57% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 503%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Elmstead Primary School Association sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 43rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Promoting Women in Science (£19k), Keinton Mandeville Parent Staff Association (£19k) and St John the Baptist Primary School PTA (£19k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.