WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 1125268 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision and conduct of a day school for boys and girls.

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Latest income
£11.6m
Latest spending
£11.3m
Registered
2008
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £14,913k, with unrestricted free reserves reaching £2,504k. The charity reports a net gain of £278k for the year, driven by a reduction in charitable expenditure to £11,320k despite a slight decrease in fee income. The trustees confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future, noting that salary costs as a percentage of net fee income improved to 74.4% from 82.3% in the prior year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wolverhampton Grammar School (matched by registered charity number).

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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)

Total income
£11.6m
Total spending
£11.3m
Reserves (reported)
£5.1m
Employees
183

Reported reserves equal ~5.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Wolverhampton

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£11.6m£11.3m
31/08/2024£12.9m£12.7m
31/08/2023£10.8m£11.0m
31/08/2022£10.2m£10.0m
31/08/2021£9.6m£8.9m

Common questions

Is WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total funds increased to £14,913k, with unrestricted free reserves reaching £2,504k. The charity reports a net gain of £278k for the year, driven by a reduction in charitable expenditure to £11,320k despite a slight decrease in fee income. The trustees confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future, noting that salary costs as a percentage of net fee income improved to 74.4% from 82.3% in the prior year. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe UK LLP.

Who funds WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIMITED as a grant recipient include The Merchant Taylors' Foundation.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
The Merchant Taylors' FoundationFY2025£25kEducation
The Merchant Taylors' FoundationFY2025£17kOther
The Merchant Taylors' FoundationFY2022£15kEducation (from restricted funds)
The Merchant Taylors' FoundationFY2022£600Education (from unrestricted funds)

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
JOHN JACKSON CHARITABLE TRUST1£320

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Highworth Grammar School Trust, School Fund.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
WOLVERHAMPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL LIMITED£11.6m——unclear—no doubt
Highworth Grammar School Trust, School Fund FY2025£565k—0unclear—no doubt
WOLFSON HILLEL PRIMARY SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024£460k—0within—no doubt
THE WATFORD FULLER FOUNDATION FY2025£170k—0unclear—no doubt
THE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST FY2025£3.1m—0above—not going concern
LANCASTER ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL CHARITY FY2025£358k—0unclear—no doubt

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