C P S Preston Ltd

Analysis

C P S Preston Ltd is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Preston. It was registered in September 1963, 63 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 00539636). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, C P S Preston Ltd reported income of £1.2m and spending of £1.3m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £962k to £1.2m (+30%), an average of +6.7% a year. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, C P S Preston Ltd sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Derwent Stepping Stones Nursery and Community Training Centre (£1.2m), Wilmslow Preparatory School Trust Limited (£1.2m) and The Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (£1.2m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 96% and trading 3.7%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. It employed 36 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.