INSTITUTE OF SCHOOL BUSINESS LEADERSHIP

Registered charity 1114623 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, NATIONAL BURSARS ASSOCIATION LIMITED

To support schools and staff with matters related to efficient and effective management of schools. To develop a system leadership culture where knowledge sharing is a conduit to continuous improvement. To ensure qualifications and training are available to support high standards of professional practice. To support HM Government with implementation of policy and to engage in formal consultations.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE COLLECTION AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSES OF PROMOTING THE HIGHEST ADMINISTRATIVE EFFICIENCY IN THE ORGANISATION OF SCHOOLS AND EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the financial statements give a true and fair view of the group's and charitable company's affairs. The independent auditor concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the entity's ability to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young (Birmingham) LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lee Miller — Deputy Chief Executive at the Thinking Schools Academy Trust (source)

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (88% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew Burrellchair
• Austin Spencer Earl
• Dr Carl Stewart Ward
• Dr Nicole Ponsford
• Emeritus Professor Karen Elizabeth Starr
• Gail Samantha Brown
• Helen Elizabeth Burge · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Leslie Coates
• Luci Jones
• Russell Gregge Dalton
• Stephen Lester
• Wendy Farrier

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP.

• THE INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP income £4.7m
• AL-ISLAH SCHOOLS TRUST income £283k
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND NON-MAINTAINED SPECIAL SCHOOLS income £465k
• THE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION income £1.9m
• INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT STUDIES income £4.1m
• DEVON SCHOOLS LEADERSHIP SERVICES CIO income £280k

Side by side with its peers

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