NEW COLLEGE WORCESTER

Registered charity 1118377 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q3338919 · Wikipedia

New College Worcester is a residential school for blind and partially sighted children and young people aged 11-19. As well as a full curriculum with a wide range of GCSE and A-Levels, the development of independent living skills and an extensive programme of extra-curricular activities is part of the educational provision.

Objects

(A) TO PROVIDE AND PROMOTE AN ACADEMIC, SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE VISION IMPAIRED;(B) TO MAXIMISE EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE VISION IMPAIRED AND TO FIT EACH STUDENT WITH SKILLS FOR LIFE THAT RESULT IN THEM BEING INDEPENDENT, CONFIDENT AND ABLE TO LEAD PRODUCTIVE AND FULFILLED LIVES.(C) TO TAKE OVER THE WHOLE (OR ANY PART OF WHICH MAY BE LEGALLY VESTED IN THE CHARITABLE COMPANY) OF THE PROPERTY BELONGING TO, AND TO UNDERTAKE ANY AND ALL OF THE LIABILITIES OF, THE UNINCORPORATED CHARITY KNOWN AT THE TIME OF THE INCORPORATION OF THE CHARITABLE COMPANY AS "R.N.I.B. NEW COLLEGE WORCESTER" (BUT FORMERLY KNOWN AS "WORCESTER COLLEGE FOR THE BLIND") WHICH WAS REGULATED BY A DEED OF TRUST EXECUTED ON THE 14TH AUGUST 1936 (SUBSEQUENTLY AMENDED) BEFORE BEING RENAMED NEW COLLEGE WORCESTER TRUST UNDER A SCHEME MADE BY THE CHARITY COMMISSION ("THE COMMISSION") ON THE 8TH DAY OF JUNE 2007 FOR ITS FUTURE ADMINISTRATION, AND WHICH IS REGISTERED WITH THE COMMISSION UNDER NUMBER 1 1 18377-1 ("THE EXISTING CHARITY").(D) TO MANAGE AND CONDUCT NEW COLLEGE WORCESTER (INCORPORATING WORCESTER COLLEGE FOR THE BLIND AND CHORLEYWOOD COLLEGE FOR GIRLS WITH LITTLE OR NO SIGHT) ("THE COLLEGE") AND TO HOLD AND ADMINISTER ITS PROPERTY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS SET OUT IN THE CHARITABLE COMPANY'S MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION ("THE ARTICLES").

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, THE CHANNEL ISLANDS AND THE ISLE OF MAN AND ELSEWHERE IN THE COMMONWEALTH

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

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Registered contact address: Worcester, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £57,676 are significantly below the trustees' stated policy target of £800,000 (approximately two months of running costs). The charity reported a net expenditure of £1,193,143 for the year, driven by lower student numbers and restructuring costs, though it maintains a positive cash flow until May 2027 and is proceeding with a merger into the AET Group to secure its long-term future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kendall Wadley LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06053218

What the charity says about itself (2024/25)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — New College Worcester (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rachel Perks — Principal (source)
• Steve Farr — Vice Principal (source)
• Will Stark — Assistant Principal - Curriculum, Teaching & Learning (source)
• Victoria Ward — Associate Principal: NCW Lead Practitioner for VI (source)
• Paul Stephens — Assistant Principal - Personal Development and Designated Safeguarding Lead (source)
• Simon Morom — Director of Finance (source)
• Kate Lindsay — Director of Residential (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Vinchel Foundation — “Our supporters The Vinchel Foundation” (source page)

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.

• BYWATER, Lyndall Patricia — director, appointed 24/06/2026on trustee list
• LAMB, Matthew, Dr — director, appointed 02/04/2026on trustee list
• CARVALHO, Cailean — director, appointed 02/04/2026on trustee list
• CLARK, Chris — director, appointed 21/11/2024on trustee list
• SWEENEY, Sian — director, appointed 21/11/2024on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Emma Ashby — director, appointed 01/10/2023on trustee list
• GORICK, Katharine Jane — director, appointed 25/09/2023on trustee list
• DYSON, Pat — director, appointed 25/09/2023not on trustee list
• MAURO-BRACKEN, Lisa — director, appointed 25/09/2023on trustee list
• PERKS, Rachel — director, appointed 01/09/2022on trustee list
• LAWRENCE, Timothy Peter — director, appointed 25/05/2022on trustee list
• MORRIS, Linda, Lady — director, appointed 07/07/2021on trustee list
• SIMKISS, Philippa Ann, Dr — director, appointed 16/10/2019on trustee list
• TYLER, Stephen Andrew — director, appointed 03/04/2014on trustee list
• MOROM, Simon Michael — secretary, appointed 13/03/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). 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)

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cailean Carvalho
• Chris Clark
• Emma Ashby Williams
• Katharine Jane Gorick
• Lady Linda Morris · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lisa Ann Mauro-Bracken
• Lyndall Bywater
• Matthew Lamb
• Peter Hylton
• Philippa Ann Simkiss · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachel Perks
• Sian Sweeney
• Steven Andrew Tyler
• Timothy Peter Lawrence

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL NATIONAL COLLEGE FOR THE BLIND.

• THE ROYAL NATIONAL COLLEGE FOR THE BLIND income £8.9m
• ST. WYSTAN'S SCHOOL income £991k
• THE NEW SCHOOL income £1.8m
• ST PETER'S COLLEGE (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS WESTMINSTER SCHOOL) income £46.1m
• NEWCASTLE CHILDREN'S CENTRE income £78k
• NEWCASTLE SCHOOL FOR BOYS income £5.7m

Side by side with its peers

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