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BIRKDALE SCHOOL

Registered charity 1018973 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Independent primary and secondary school

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Latest income
£12.7m
Latest spending
£13.8m
Registered
1993
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a total deficit of £2,976,894, largely driven by a £1,796,834 paper loss from property revaluation. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds were negative at £124,533, though the school maintained a positive cash balance of £1,817,465 and expects reserves to return to a positive position in the next financial period.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: approximately 5% of total income, namely some £650,000 (held: £-125k)
“an appropriate minimum threshold of free reserves was approximately 5% of total income, namely some £650,000.” — page 10
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

15 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (14 freehold); recorded price paid £1.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Total income
£12.7m
Total spending
£13.8m
Cost of raising funds
£8k
Reserves (reported)
£125k
Employees
214

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Barnsley · Derbyshire · Doncaster · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£12.7m£13.8m
31/08/2024£13.0m£13.6m
31/08/2023£13.4m£10.2m
31/08/2022£9.1m£9.2m
31/08/2021£8.7m£8.7m

Common questions

Is BIRKDALE SCHOOL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity recorded a total deficit of £2,976,894, largely driven by a £1,796,834 paper loss from property revaluation. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds were negative at £124,533, though the school maintained a positive cash balance of £1,817,465 and expects reserves to return to a positive position in the next financial period. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sumer Auditco Limited.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE WELLINGTON SCHOOL FOUNDATION1£454k
VISCOUNT AMORY'S CHARITABLE TRUST1£230k
THE COPPING JOYCE FOUNDATION1£173k
THE JMCMRJ SORRELL FOUNDATION1£25k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BURY MANOR SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED (DORSET HOUSE SCHOOL).

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BIRKDALE SCHOOL£12.7m—0unclear—no doubt
BURY MANOR SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED (DORSET HOUSE SCHOOL) FY2025£2.3m£100,001 - £110,000—below—noted
BELMONT-BIRKLANDS SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£2.1m—0below—noted
BISHOP CHALLONER SCHOOL FY2023£3.5m——unclear—no doubt
BLUNDELL'S SCHOOL FY2025£19.5m£170,001 - £180,000—unclear—no doubt
ST MARY'S SCHOOL (COLCHESTER) LIMITED FY2025£7.0m£80,001 - £90,000—unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.