St Margaret's School Bushey

Analysis

St Margaret's School Bushey is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bushey. It was registered in June 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03201182). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, St Margaret's School Bushey reported income of £16.1m and spending of £16.7m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £7.8m to £16.1m (+106%), an average of +20% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, St Margaret's School Bushey sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Clare College Cambridge (£16.0m), Acorn Early Years Foundation (£16.3m) and St Hilda's College in the University of Oxford (£16.0m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 90% and trading 2.7%. Charitable activities took 98% of spending and raising funds 2.1%. It employed 200 people.

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.