Balgowan School Parent Teacher Association

Analysis

Balgowan School Parent Teacher Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Beckenham. It was registered in July 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under children and youth development. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Balgowan School Parent Teacher Association reported income of £75k and spending of £75k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £32k to £75k (+134%), an average of +24% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 5,641 England and Wales charities whose main cause is children and youth development and that reported income, Balgowan School Parent Teacher Association sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Sutton Pendle Charitable Trust (£75k), The Freya Foundation (£76k) and Catterick, Richmond and Colburn Community Libraries (£75k).

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.