Parents/Friends at Long Meadow School (P a L S)

Analysis

Parents/Friends at Long Meadow School (P a L S) is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Milton Keynes. It was registered in February 2003, 23 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, Parents/Friends at Long Meadow School (P a L S) reported income of £18k and spending of £18k, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £7,988 to £18k (+126%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 115%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Parents/Friends at Long Meadow School (P a L S) sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 42nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hilton Formula 24 (£18k), Holy Trinity Church of England School, Lamorbey Parent-Teacher Association (£18k) and Bryn Deri County Primary School Parent Teacher Association (£18k).

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.