Services For Education Limited

Registered charity 1148848 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BIRMINGHAM MUSIC SERVICE, S4E LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES SERVICE, S4E LIMITED, S4E MUSIC SERVICE, S4E SCHOOL SUPPORT SERVICE, SERVICES FOR EDUCATION

Delivery of music, health and education, and learning and assessmemt services

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£7.2m

Latest spending

£7.0m

Registered

2012

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £135,829 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted funds carried forward totaling £2,955,692. Per the trustees' report, these unrestricted reserves are deemed sufficient to cover the stated policy target of six months' staff costs, which amounted to £2,781,714. The charity maintains a cash balance of £3,541,635 and has no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £100,001 - £110,000 — in the top quarter for charities its size (median £70k)

“In the band £100,001 - £110,000 1”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Largest income source: Arts Council England (29% of income)

“Included within Grants there is £2,029,526 from Arts Council England.” — page 33

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: six months staff costs (held: £3.0m)

“It is the policy of the Board that cumulative unrestricted funds available to cover six months staff costs should be maintained.” — page 16

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Services For Education Limited (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Sharon Bell — Chief Executive (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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Total income

£7.2m

Total spending

£7.0m

Reserves (reported)

£3.0m

Employees

208

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% 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 (19/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Chirag Mistry
David Bolton · trustee of 1 other charity
Dr Enid Jory Debenham
Dr Peter Borg-Bartolo MRCS, LRCP
Dr Taiwo Daniel Amona
Eluned Mansell
Fozia Nisar
James Taylor
Joanna Christine Cooney
Martin Anthony Hall
Oliver John Goodall Wilson · trustee of 2 other charities
PAUL CLIVE STONE · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£7.2m	£7.0m
31/08/2024	£7.1m	£6.9m
31/08/2023	£6.9m	£7.0m
31/08/2022	£7.0m	£6.8m
31/08/2021	£7.2m	£6.3m

Common questions

Is Services For Education Limited financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £135,829 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted funds carried forward totaling £2,955,692. Per the trustees' report, these unrestricted reserves are deemed sufficient to cover the stated policy target of six months' staff costs, which amounted to £2,781,714. The charity maintains a cash balance of £3,541,635 and has no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited.

What does the highest-paid employee of Services For Education Limited earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £100,001 - £110,000 band.

Who funds Services For Education Limited?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Services For Education Limited as a grant recipient include THE NOEL SWEENEY FOUNDATION, THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST, THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUST, THE SAINTBURY TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE NOEL SWEENEY FOUNDATION	FY2023	£15k
THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£7k	Education / Training
THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£5k	Education and Training
THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUST	FY2023	£5k
THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUST	FY2025	£5k	Grant Round 2 - £5,000
THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£3k	Education and Training
THE SAINTBURY TRUST	FY2022	£3k	The Advancement of Arts, Culture, Heritage or Science
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£3k
THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£2k	Education / Training
THE SAINTBURY TRUST	FY2024	£2k	Advancement of Arts, Culture, Heritage or Science
LILLIE JOHNSON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£1k
THE EDWARD AND DOROTHY CADBURY TRUST	FY2023	£1k	Education and Training
LILLIE JOHNSON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£1k
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£1k
THE EDWARD AND DOROTHY CADBURY TRUST	FY2024	£1k	Education and Training
LILLIE JOHNSON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2026	£1k
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£500
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£500

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
UK government	20/07/2023	£1.1m	Music Education Hub Funding
UK government	24/03/2022	£821k	Music Education Hub Funding
UK government	24/03/2022	£2.0m	Music Education Hub Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund	02/11/2016	£10k	Growing up with Family Learning.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE GEOFFREY AND PAULINE MARTIN TRUST	1	£32k
THE HARDING TRUST	1	£25k
EDWARDS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£22k
CECIL PILKINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£16k
MISS E F RATHBONE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£3k
JOHN JACKSON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£320

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PREMISES MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME.

THE PREMISES MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME income £170k
FOUNTAINS OF KNOWLEDGE income £1.1m
SKILLS AND EDUCATION GROUP AWARDS LIMITED income £3.0m
THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
EARLY MUSIC AS EDUCATION income £137k
ISTA Global Arts Learning Ltd income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
Services For Education Limited	£7.2m	£100,001 - £110,000	—	above	—	no doubt
THE PREMISES MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME FY2025	£170k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
FOUNTAINS OF KNOWLEDGE FY2025	£1.1m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
SKILLS AND EDUCATION GROUP AWARDS LIMITED FY2025	£3.0m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE CAVENDISH SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£4.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
EARLY MUSIC AS EDUCATION FY2025	£137k	—	0	within	—	no doubt

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