Parents' associations: what PTAs and PTFAs raise

Parents, teachers and friends associations raise money for extras: trips, equipment, playgrounds. This page shows what registered associations raised, and how that differs between schools.

Figures come from the Charity Commission register. Charities with an income of £5,000 or less need not register, so a school where no registered parents' association was found may still have one. Parents' association income and the donations in a school's own accounts can overlap (money the association gives the school can appear in both), so the two are never added together. Each return is counted in the school year it falls in (April to March for council-run schools, September to August for academies), and an association shared by several schools is split equally between them.

The gap by intake

In schools with the most affluent intakes, the middle association raised £59 per pupil; in schools with the least affluent, £22.

Bands rank schools on free school meals and neighbourhood deprivation together, in five equal groups. Each school's latest return in 2024-25 or 2025-26.

Grammar and non-selective, academy and council-run

The biggest fundraisers

Each school's latest return in 2024-25 or 2025-26; a shared association counts its share for each school.

Held for review and left out of every figure here: charities with a year's income over £500,000, as a match that large is usually a different school's charity: ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF SCOTFORTH CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOL, ORCHARD MANOR SCHOOL PARENTS STAFF AND FRIENDS ASSOCIATION.